The Permissions Model in FrontPage

To help you manage access to   on a Web server, FrontPage provides you with a simple role-based   model and useful administrative tools for setting permissions. The role-based model simply says that the permissions you give a user depend on that user's role (a user can be a person, group, or computer).

For each   on a Web server, you can set permissions for users in the following three roles:

•  visitors, to whom you give browsing permission, which is permission to view and use a FrontPage-extended web after it has been published on a Web server.
• Authors, to whom you give authoring permission, which is permission to open a FrontPage-extended web and modify its content.
• Administrators, to whom you give administering permission, which is permission to add, upgrade, or remove the FrontPage Server Extensions from a FrontPage-extended web, create and delete  , log authoring operations, set permissions for other users, and perform other administrative tasks.

FrontPage-extended web permissions are hierarchical: A user with administrative permissions has authoring and browsing permissions. A user with authoring permissions has browsing permissions.

By default, the permissions you set for a web are inherited by all the subwebs below it. You can, however, set unique permissions for a subweb that override the permissions it inherited from its parent web. That way, you can specify different levels of access to each subweb for each user or group. For example, you can give the same user authoring permissions for one subweb but only browsing permissions for another.

For which users can you set permissions? The answer depends on the Web server you are working with. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) supplies user accounts from the Windows NT account list. You can set permissions only for users on this list; you cannot create new user accounts. For other Web servers, however, the list of users is maintained by the Web server and you can create new user accounts.

You can set permissions for a web in FrontPage by using the FrontPage Server Extensions utilities, such as Fpsrvadm, as well as the Permissions command on the Tools menu.