You can exclude certain users or groups of users from particular pages with the login form. Only users that enter the right combination of password and user ID have access to the protected areas. The user administration in TypoScript is very complex, but this doesn't mean it is complicated. It's just that there are myriad options to make access difficult.
In the next section, we will show you how to use the login form to give access to only a designated user group. In the second part of this mini-workshop you will learn how to extend the standard login. The goal is to let customers handle their own registration and set up their own User ID/password combination.
If you remember, we built an example page tree at the beginning of the book and inserted the item Customers. We want this area to be accessible to customers. Every customer that wants to access these pages has to log in with a customer ID and password. But not the entire customer area is protected...