[Slashcode-development] acl permissions for sections -- patch for slashcode

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

Hey list members, I'm looking for people interested in permissions for 
sections that are willing to donate a half hour of their time to test a patch 
to implement this.

Basically, what I did was add  acl-read, and acl-write options to Sections. 
The idea is that if you assign an acl-read acl to a section, only users w/ 
that acl can read stories/comments in that section. Same goes for writing (ie 
posting comments), users would need the acl-write.

Please be advised, you should *not* test this on a production system! 

Here's what was touched:

files altered:

sql/mysql/defaults.sql
sql/mysql/slashschema_create.sql
sql/mysql/upgrades
plugins/Sections/sections.pl
plugins/Sections/templates/editSection;sections;default
Slash/Apache/User/User.pm
themes/slashcode/tasks/freshenup.pl
themes/slashcode/THEME

files added:
permissiondenied_uid;misc;default

The patch was made against CVS from Wednesday 09/25 at about noon. So if you 
are running slash from CVS, this should apply fairly cleanly. If you're not 
running from CVS, rather a t or r-tag, then you may have to apply these by 
hand.

Note: don't apply this to a production system. I've got print statements going 
to Apache's errorlog in there just to track bugs in the code, if any (ha!).  
Apply it to a test installation!!

If you put the patch into /tmp/ and cd to your src tree, you can probably 
patch the entire thing by doing the following:

cd /usr/local/src/slash
patch -p6 < /tmp/section_acl_diff_version01.txt

there's a var to turn this behavior on/off. it is called "sections_useacls". 
If you apply the patch, you'll need to turn the var on and restart apache, 
because the patch is setup so that the default is OFF.

Then you'll need to either create a new section, or edit an existing section. 
Create a read-only ACL for it.

Use the useracl editor in slash's utils dir to add/remove the acl's from user 
accounts.

If you have time to sit down and try this out, I would appreciate it.

What I would like to do is find someone to install this and tell me it 
works/doesn't work. Fix it, take out the debug statements, make a new patch 
and submit it to Slash's sourceforge to see if it could be included with the 
distribution.

Thanks,
 Shane

PS - you can grab it here:

<URL: http://lottadot.com/files/slashmods/section_acl_diff_version01.txt >