Re: [PyCS-devel] user supplied access restrictions for PyCS

[Phillip P. <pp...@my...>]

Ooh, great.  I've been thinking about what sort of API to make for
defining permissions in my standalone search engine, but seeing as
you've already defined this, I'll just use it ;-)

I'll make a tool to take a PyCS users.conf file and push it up to a
server using this API, and then if you get it so PyDS can set access
restrictions on > 1 server at once (wait until we've got integration
with my search engine though), everything will just come out
automatically.

Cheers,
Phil

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:51:44PM +0200, Georg Bauer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The following link:
> 
> http://pyds.muensterland.org/weblog/2003/05/15.html#P118
> 
> announces a description of a way to set up access restrictions on blogs 
> with an XML-RPC API. This is to allow blogging tools to set up user 
> accounts and access restrictions from within the tool. I am planning to 
> build such a tool for the PyDS.
> 
> It's much like a <Location ~ /^..../> ... </Location> block in Apache, 
> only there is only _one_ password list and restrictions are always 
> based on groups. The blogging tools can easily build a GUI on top of 
> the API.
> 
> One way to use this is to set up access restrictions for your backup 
> path, so others can't access your backups. Or to set up private 
> categories that are rendered and upstreamed, but should only be read by 
> a group of visitors you personally know.
> 
> Phil: I have applied patches to search.py, but since I don't use 
> ht:/Dig, I can't test it. So you better look over my code before you 
> upgrade pycs.net ;-)
> 
> swish.py doesn't honor the access restrictions, but since it only gives 
> out the URL, I don't see big problems with this. Users could use the 
> swish searching to discover what a document might be about, though. 
> Phil once wrote that he had applied patches to swish.py to hook it into 
> the access stuff, but I can't find them and so didn't bother to add my 
> own stuff ;-)
> 
> This XML-RPC API is mostly ignorant of the kind of community server it 
> runs on, so it could be implemented on top of PSS or RCS, too.
> 
> Comments? Ideas? Bugs?
> 
> bye, Georg
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara
> The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions
> www.enterpriselinuxforum.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PyCS-devel mailing list
> PyC...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pycs-devel