Re: [WWcvs] webwork2: modifications to support changes to global.conf.dist adding

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 15:16, Sam Hathaway via activitymail wrote:

> Log Message:
> -----------
> modifications to support changes to global.conf.dist adding %userRoles
> hash and changing the meaning of values in %permissionLevels.
>
> Authz will now look up the role obtained from %permissionLevels in the
> %userRoles hash, and compare the resulting number with the user's
> permission level.

The other half of this log message was supposed to be:

> implemented named roles for permissions system. %userRoles maps role
> names to numeric permission levels, and %permissionLevels now maps
> activities* to role names. A slight change to Authz.pm accompanies  
> this
> change to do the role-to-permission-level lookups.
>
> * a.k.a. operations, privilegespermissions, gotta get the terminology
> straight. think of the users!
>
> %userRoles should be used by modules such as UserList for providing  
> more
> intelligent editing of the permission_level field. Another possible  
> use
> would be to for pretty-printing user types -- a user could be called a
> student, ta, professor, etc. based on what role corresponded to their
> permission_level.