[Phpwiki-talk] Re: user auth/email notification (fwd)

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:42:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gary Benson <ga...@in...>
To: Jeff Dairiki <da...@da...>
Cc: Steve Wainstead <sw...@pa...>, Pablo Roca <pr...@cl...>
Subject: Re: user auth/email notification


This chat should really be happening on the list...
G

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:30:01 -0500 (EST)
> "Steve Wainstead" <sw...@pa...> wrote:
>
> > Here's how I'd like to see this work:
> [...many good ideas deleted...]
>
> > (Perhaps later we can expand that to include ACLs, and there will be
> pages
> > that can/cannot be edited depending on the user. We can just copy the
> way
> > Unix does stuff. I would think that would be enough control.)
>
> I say we should plan the ACL mechanism in from the beginning, since we
> know we want it.  Unix-style access controls are, I think, sufficient,
> provided we include the group access mechanisms (each user can be a
> member of an arbitrary number of groups; each object can control access
> to three types of users: the owner (a user), the owning group, everybody
> else.)  On the other hand, why not real ACLs (where one can specify access
> for multiple users/groups)?
>
>
> Also, and this has been talked about before, with no real resolution, it
> would sure be nice to find an already written library to handle this stuff
> for us.  I keep meaning to look into the PHPNuke, etc... thingies, but
> haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
>

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