LiveUser
Contents
A series of LiveUser articles describes how to setup and use the LiveUser authentication and permission framework.
Following topics are covered:
- Concepts
- Authentication
- Permissions
How will this documentation help you ?
The introduction
Reading the introduction will help you:
- understand what is LiveUser
- why to use it
- understand the basic concepts
The authentication part
By reading the authentication you will be able to:
- configure LiveUser authentication
- add your own user fields
- interface LiveUser with your own user database tables
- work with different encryption systems
- change the database layer
- add an account remembering feature
- build an example of authentication
Some other topics still need to be investigated:
- Multiple container management
- Full documentation of the configuration file
The permission part
By reading the permission articles you will be able to:
- understand the concept of users and permissions
- assign rights directly to a user (simple level of permissions)
- understand an example of simple level of permissions
- assign users to a group
- assign rights to a group of users (medium level of permissions)
- build an example of medium level of permissions
- manage implied rights for users (complex level of permissions)
- build an example of complex level of permissions
- configure User types and permissions types from user to admin of the (across levels of permissions)
Some other topics are still to be documented:
- languages and translations (simple level)
- Permission limited by ownership (complex level)
- User level: from area user to super user (complex level)
- Sub groups (complex level)
Special thanks
Many thanks to Lukas Smith (member of the LiveUser development team) for its reviews and comments on this documentation.
