Common CMS roles and access levels

Question

I am currently writing a CMS and remember someone (it might have been on here) criticise the existing CMS for not having a robust enough user permissions system. I\'ve got a me

Answer 1

For most applications, so I think it'll be true for CMSs as well, my customers usually prefer a rights-oriented approach. Here is how it goes :

1. You list the main actions. In your CMS that would be : Create and edit content; Delete content; Classify/categorize content; Validate content; Publish content; Manage users; Etc.
2. You define what actions are allowed or denied for each user

To make things a little better, you can create several roles (Editor; Administrator) to make typical users creation easier (by pre-filling the form when a role is chosen).