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Planning for Multiple Authors

Movable Type makes the technical aspect of multiple author management easy. But if you're managing multiple authors, there are a variety of other issues with which you, as the administrator, must be concerned. To maintain security and organization while managing multiple authors, you must do the following:

• Pay more attention to security issues on your server

• Understand the trust level for each author

• Ensure that passwords are set for each individual user and are distributed carefully

• Determine how much access a given author requires

• Edit the work of an author if needed

• Restrict existing permissions of a given author

• Remove an author completely

Hopefully, you'll never have to restrict or revoke permissions for an author. ...