How do I give Active Directory users the Editor privilege

Stephen Herz asked on March 11, 2021 23:13

I have my site configured for mixed-mode authentication and am using LDAP to authenticate my content editors. The users can log in successfully and their roles are imported from Active Directory as well. However, their privilege level is none, so new users can log in but are given a message:

Access Denied
You're not a content editor and you cannot use administration

How do I get new users to have a privilege level of Editor so they can edit pages? I've configured permissions for the roles and assigned UI personalization based on roles, but need to get them to the dashboard first.

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Brenden Kehren answered on March 11, 2021 23:20

Create a global event handler to check after the user has authenticated if they are an AD user, if so, then update their privilege level to 1.

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Jeroen Fürst answered on March 12, 2021 08:50

Alternatively you could write a scheduled task to sync AD users and import them with the needed permissions.

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Stephen Herz answered on March 12, 2021 13:34 (last edited on March 12, 2021 17:58)

Brendan, that makes sense and is easy to implement. Thanks. I had assumed there would be a setting for that since it is such a common, built-in means of authentication.

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