[Phpslash-devel] Notes on users and groups in PSL0.7

[Peter C. <li...@kr...>]

Hi

Thought it would be worth posting some notes/queries from my experience with using the new users & groups (which I really like, now I'm beginning to get my head round the approach).

- As far as I can see, groups can only contain permissions and groups that only contain permissions. ie They are not fully recursive

- Why is user 'nobody' given uid of '20'? In several places, the code expects a uid of 'nobody'

- Groups 20 (nobody) and 21 (user) are hardcoded. Maybe they should be replaced by constants (eg PSL_AUTHOR_NOBODY, PSL_AUTHOR_USER) or settings in config.ini.php?

- is there a note anywhere on what the groups are for? As far as I can work out, the key ones are
  - root (obviously)
  - user (required by user-only blocks etc) - or should PublicUserAccount be used? PublicUserAccount contains 'user' and 'nobody' which is confusing.
  - nobody
  The module-specific groups seem pretty self-explanatory.

- This group seems to be empty or not used: siteeditor

I dont think there's any show-stoppers here though.

Peter