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Hello,

I am having difficulty getting permissions to work the way I need it to. May be I need to change my way of working... not sure which way to go.

This document http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Drupal+Access+Control suggests that we first define Drupal roles, then select the permissions the role needs. Say I define a role "Test Users", in addition to the existing roles "anonymous" and "authenticated user".

In CiviCRM, I defined a group named "Test Users", and place a user in it automatically via Profile's "Add new contacts to a Group" (available in CiviCRM | Profile Settings | Advanced Settings). I use this feature extensively.

I need to link up "Test Users" role in Drupal to "Test Users" group in CiviCRM : Drupal will control which CiviCRM functions are allowed, while the user is assigned to this group in CiviCRM.

If this linkage is not present, all logged-in users are of role "Authenticated user" in Drupal, and the control is not fine-grained enough, unless I manually add all users to the Drupal role "Test Users" individually.

Any comments?