On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > >> On 17 Jan 2017, at 16:54, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi devs, >> >> I'm thinking since a long time that maybe we should automatically make >> superadmin the author of the pages when installing a XAR as long as >> the current user (and current author) have programming right (i.e. has >> the same rights than superadmin when the extension is installed). I >> don't really see anything against it these days and it's easy to do so >> why not. >> >> Basically the goal is to reduce the possibility to break extensions >> when you play with existing users/groups/rights. Common user case >> being to get rid of some old adminsys leaving the company. >> >> WDYT ? > > Why not. However I haven’t thought enough about it but right now the downside > I see is the loss of accountability/tracability. It’s interesting to know > what user has installed a given page. Using superadmin would loose this info.
You can know wo installed the extension so it reduce a bit the history problem. Couldn’t we keep the author as is, and just apply this to the content author ? Wouldn’t this be sufficient for our purpose ? > > BTW and related to this, I’d prefer to have a System user instead of using > superadmin. The rationale is that super admin is user and you can log with it > whereas System wouldn’t be a user that you can log with. It would represent a > change made by the system. This could be another discussion but I thought I > would mention it here to be complete. The main issue is that it's not so easy to introduce new virtual users without potentially colliding with some existing user somewhere. That's the issue with possible virtual admin user too. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Note: to be complete we could imagine the same kind of thing for admin >> user but that require the introduction of a virtual admin right user >> like superadmin is a vitual programming right user. But let's not >> discuss too many thing at once. >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO
