Howdy,
I just set up a client with a fresh MTOS installation to use as a lightweight CMS for a static website. I gave its several users a modified version of the "Webmaster" role so that they could create and edit pages without encumbering them with controls relating to blog entries (as this site isn't a blog).
One of the users discovered, to our mutual surprise, that they couldn't set the filename of a page to anything other than the page's title; if they changed the filename field and hit 'save', MT would go through the motions of re-publishing the page, only to reveal that it simply rewrote the page as whatever_the_title_is.html.
I found that that I could empower them to rename files freely by giving their role the "Edit Entries" permission, so this is what I've done. This has the unfortunate side-effect of activating several entry/comment/trackback-related commands under their "Manage" menu when using MT; I've told them to pay that stuff no mind. I'd rather just keep those commands greyed out entirely, though.
Is there a better way to do what I want to do, here?
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
I submitted a patch for this ( http://bugs.movabletype.org/default.asp?93701 ) which hasn't been integrated yet.
Hey, excellent. Thanks, Mike!