hello, i am new to both the group and drupal in general. Although i have been aware of drupal, i have not tried a serious installation of it beyond the core installation. I now have a project, that i would like to make a real attempt into integrating with the drupal universe. i plan on installing a drupal 6.2 installation on a unix server running, apache 2.2.9, php 5.2.6, mysql 5.0.51a.
The goal of my multisite installation, will be to create 3 domains (example1.com, example2.com, and example3.com) with a single user and forum login (i would like to have every user be unique across all 3 domains). The 3 sites may or may not have shared content, blocks, nodes, themes etc. I would like the option to go either route if possible.
I would like to create access for administrator, editor, contributor, authorized user and anon/public. There will probably be gradients of authorization between these basic levels of access as the site grows.
I have read quite a few group posts and threads including.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/11494
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7725
http://drupal.org/node/264531
http://drupal.org/node/234087
http://groups.drupal.org/node/5392
among many others
It seems to me that the options available to me are
TAC
OG
OGR (when avail)
CA
ACL
DA
singlesignon
So here's the .25 question.
Which configuration of these modules or any others i may have missed would make the most sense.
If i just blindly installed them all and did not use some of them, what problems, might i be setting myself up for in the future. If i just went with a more streamlined install, and went with just one or 2 of them, what problems would i run into if i added components in the future.
What kind of db changes would i need to make to run a single user base for site and forum access/permissions.
The forums will exist separately on each individual sites domain as they will be somewhat unrelated. I would just like user for domain A to join domain A and have access to domain A, B, C and Forum A,B,C and be unique across all 3 domains. Basically a single username directory for a 3 sites and forums
Ok so maybe there were .50 of questions there. and i'm sure i'll be adding to them as suggestions and answers arrive. Thank you in advance for your time and input.