So, at the end of the story... is my last patch correct, right?
Sorry, but I'm a bit tired today and I'm getting a bit dumb.
Jacopo
Adrian Crum wrote:
David,
Thanks for your input!
Si makes a good point about permissions that have unexpected
side-effects. Let's say you're using some of the Party Manager screens
in a custom app. Inside those screens are permission checks for the
PARTYMGR_VIEW permission, so you give that permission to your custom app
users. Oops, now they have access to the Party Manager application. By
ANDing the base-permission list, if they don't have the OFBTOOLS
permission, then the Party Manager application doesn't appear.
The OFBTOOLS permission idea solves the problem. It just seems
counter-intuitive in the base-permission list.
-Adrian
David E Jones wrote:
Not sure where Si got his notes, but I think what you are writing is
correct Adrian.
If I remember right from the initial discussions around this the
point was to be able to add on other applications and have more
control over which a user can see, the common scenario being that you
would want to be able to setup a user that could see the add-on
application (even though it does have a security permission), but not
the base ofbiz applications. With that you could just not include the
OFBTOOLS permission in your add-on application and off you go...
-David
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Jacopo,
Doing a Google search, I found these notes from Si:
http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/security.php
According to Si, the list of base permissions should be ANDed, not
ORed. I don't know the reasoning for that, however.
-Adrian
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
Adrian,
I think that you could be right.
I'm not sure I understand the meaning of the OFBTOOLS permission,
but I don't think it was intended as the base permission for the
Webtools application... but I could be wrong.
Any hints from others?
Jacopo
Adrian Crum wrote:
Jacopo,
How was the original logic incorrect? The original logic was this:
For each application:
Permission to use the application defaults to false
If the user has one of the permissions in the application's
base-permission list,
OR if the base-permission list contains "NONE", then
permission to use
the application is true
The reason all of the applications became visible to a user with
the OFBTOOLS permission is because all of the applications have
the OFBTOOLS permission in their base-permission list.
My understanding is that the OFBTOOLS permission was intended to
grant access to the Webtools application. I don't know why it has
been included in every other application.
-Adrian
