Your case certainly sounds like an interesting case and if you are willing to patch the code in such a way that retains current behavior and adds the new behavior we would be happy to commit it. None of this is set in stone. If something doesn't work we can and will change it.
Vladimir On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:02:55 -0500, Seth Graham <set...@fnal.gov> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > >> Hi Seth. I'm just back from a week off the grid, and trying to get >> caught up on a mountain of electronic stuff. Here's my quick response. >> Please let me know if more explanation is required. > > Nope, the explanation makes sense. The only thing I was missing was detail > about the philosophy behind the privileges system. > >> Editing views is not per-cluster permission because views can contain >> graphs from many clusters. Currently, we only support a single 'edit' >> permission for all views. (A user can either edit all views, or can edit >> none.) You can't selectively grant edit permission on a single view. >> That restriction could possible be lifted in the future if there is >> demand for it. > > It's my primary motivation for updating to the new interface, actually. > > I don't know how typical my environment is, but I'm taking care of > machines belonging to many different experiments. Users like to have their > resources on their own web page, and not see nodes they don't care about. > Traditionally I've dealt with this in gmetad.conf, moving machines between > clusters or making new clusters based on the whims of scientists. It works, > but is kind of a pain. > > Being able to set up admin accounts and let the users arrange things to > taste via a web page would make everyone happy.. I don't have to babysit > ganglia, and they don't have to wait for me to update ganglia. > > Fortunately, it's pretty easy to modify the access checks to allow this > behavior, so if I'm a minority case, I can patch where needed. I just > wasn't sure if I was using the ACL system properly. > > > thanks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > ganglia-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
