RE: [PEAR-DEV] [rfc] permissions managment

> -----Original Message----- > From: Arnaud Limbourg [mailto:arnaud.limbourg@club-internet.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:56 PM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] [rfc] permissions managment > > > You´re right if you´re talking pure authentication - if there´s a good > > package, which PEAR::Auth seems to be, there´s not very much reason for > > a second one, except perhaps for taste. > > Exactly ;) > > > Regarding authorisation, I see room for at least two packages: A complex > > one with all the options that LiveUser provides, and a very simple one, > > like the PHPLib-style permission class. Lukas has plans for separating > > the LiveUser package into three levels of complexity, which I guess I > > don´t fully understand at this point. > > Who understands Lukas anyway ? ;))))) > Checking my todo list I see: - admin types Person/User/Admin*: only has the right specifically given to him Moduladmin: all the right of an Administrator plus he can do anything within the modules he is assigned to as Moduladmin Superadmin: can do anything a Moduladmin can do for all Modules Masteradmin: can do anything So we will end up with the following types: Person User Admin Moduladmin Superadmin Masteradmin I will try and see if I can make this extensible, so that you can add any type you want. The above types will have the special meanings as you can see above. This is basically the simple system that was talked about earlier .. and I think that is pretty much what phplib does (atleast last time I looked at years ago)? Regards, Lukas