Ok, seems as though we need to support three separate blogs on this site, one for each of three categories of users, "staff", "members","recruits".

If I log in as "staff" it would be nice to be able to view all three blogs on the same page (it might be ok to break out to a separate page to post ...

That can be used to login to the frontend as well, if you put the form's target to "index.php" instead of "serendipity_admin.php".

Great suggestion...thanks! Going to add the required styling and and it's set to go!

Tried creating a category, (there were none)...assigned read permission to usergroup "members", and write permission to adminstrator...

Wasn't able to get a login box up, but now thinking that since what I really want is something that looks like the admin section login form, can I just hack that ...

2. Make all categories read-only for specific usergroups.

How do I do this? Went into group->edit under admin...it wasn't obvious to me...I think I'm getting too stressed to think straight..

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for getting back so fast..that's what I needed to know...

Hi Folks,

I know this answer is here somewhere, took a quick look but am slammed up against a wall to get this up and working...

I need to create a front end login for all users..seemed like the adduser plugin is the way to go.

Downloaded and installed it in the plugins directory..fired up ...

Hello:
I've seen comments on how to integrate s9y into an existing authentication system.

Can it be done the other way around; using s9y as the authentication system, then being able to break out of the blog into the other secured pages?

Thanks,
Francis.