Hi sbillard said this:

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As far as album visibility. If you have not given the user View All rights he can see only published albums and albums which are in his managed album list. Seems that is what you are looking for, isn't it?

If so then the approach would be...
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sbillard's full post makes a lot of sense, but (for my personal requirements) I'm still a little lost as how to implement it.

I have manually (within Admin) created a second "test" user, which doesn't have full admin abilities. I have password protected a specific album and now, when being logged out of Admin, I can see that the Album icon has a padlock on it.

Now, if I visit http://localhost:8888/zenphoto/zp-core/ I get the Admin login window. I can login to the "test" account and be in the Admin area (but unable to actually edit anything).

I can click the top-right "view gallery" link and be shown the protected album. Yay! That's great

But, obviously I don't really want "test" user to be logging in through the Admin part of the site... SO, what I assume should be simple, how do I get a site front-end login link, so that "test" can login without visiting the zp-core admin area?

Cheers,
m.

Use the register_user plugin...see you own topic: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=9411

Hello,

I am new to zenphoto and have been reading quite a bit about user management. I tried to follow the above mentioned steps

2. Make the "private" subalbums unpublished and password protected. (Again, the password does not matter.)

3. Assign Place the albums into the managed albums list of the users that are supposed to be able to see them (and, of course, not in the users who are not supposed to see them.) Set the other priviledges as desired, but DO NOT assign View all rights as that overrides what you desire.

to create hidden subalbums but I cannot find the setting, where to "place the albums into the managed albums list" - where can I do that with the hidden subalbums?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rob

You cannot place albums in the managed album list (might be a typo). They are by itself listed in that list but that managed album list only supports top level albums which includes all levels of their own subalbums.

Zenphoto is filesystem based and making subalbums of several levels directly avaialble via that list would cause too much overhead.

Thank you for your fast response! Too bad, it doesn't work that way though... I could think of several use cases where one would like to restrict access to subalbums to certain users (e.g. a couple that is only supposed to see it's own wedding pictures in the 'weddings' subalbum but not all other picutures/albums).

You can do that but you have to set a password on that album directly.