Disabling access to admin pages during maintenance I need to do some maintenance on a website that is updated by a number of contributors, what is the easiest way for me to disable access to the admin part of the website while I'm working on it?
Assuming that you are user 1, and that the contributing users all have a particular role; you should be able to just remove the administer site configuration permission from that user role whilst you're working.  This should disallow access whilst under maintenance mode.