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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business.
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Adding an ACL


In the previous recipes of this chapter, we created a backend controller action that is accessible using the admin menu. However, when you want to configure a custom admin role, you can't restrict the access to this page for a specific role. In this recipe, we will create an Access Control List (ACL) for the backend page and create a role with restricted permissions so an admin user can only view a restricted set of pages.

Getting ready

Each admin user is a member of an admin role. These roles have access permissions that manage the access to certain pages in the backend.

In this recipe, we will add new permissions for the page we created in the previous recipes of this chapter. Make sure you have installed the files of the previous recipes.

How to do it...

The following steps describe how you can limit the access to a page for a role of users:

  1. Open the backend and navigate to System | Permissions | User Roles. Click on the button Add New Role and open the Role Resources tab. You...