Implementation Of CUG In AEM

This document is to understand how to configure CUG in AEM. We may get a requirement to restrict some of the pages or register users' access to publish instance. For this reason, AEM provided a closed user group (CUG).

By implementing this, we can restrict specific page or child pages of any parent page on publish instance.
We will explain how to create a Closed User Group and Configure Closed User Group on pages.

Create a Closed User Group on AEM:
To create a close user group, we need to follow the below-mentioned steps:

• Log in to AEM author instance http://localhost:4502/

• Now click on the tools button then it shows you navigation button. In that click on security then it will open a new page. Please see the below-mentioned screenshots.

• Now click on Groups and create a new group for CUG users.

• Assign a user to this group. For whom we want to provide restricted access for the page.

• Click on Save
• Activate the user, which we have added in CUG group and activate cug-access group form the author to publish.

Configure Closed User Group (CUG) on pages:
To configure closed user group on page. Please follow below mentioned steps:

• Login to AEM and click on projects icon.

• Now navigate to any root page, which you want to restrict and need to assign to CUG group.

For example: Here we are using /content/we-retail/us/en page.

• Open the page properties on en page.

• Go to the advance tab and enable the Authentication Requirement

• Go to permission tab, Click on Edit Closed User Group and add CUG users group for this page

• We can also add extra permissions for this page by click on Add permissions button.

• Click on Save & Close button from the Top right corner in the page to save the changes.