Yes and no :). I am building a suite of tools for use by my organization and these tools will be an app engine application built with python, django, etc. As it happens, my organization has a "google apps" account that we use for email, docs, sites, etc. So, I am talking about both. The majority of my orgs members should have very limited permissions in the tools, but a select few should have more authority and privilege in the app engine based tool suite I am building. The trick is that the membership of that select group is likely to change over time. In the google apps admin one can create users and build groups of users for ease of communication. Is the app engine UserService able to know what groups my users belong to within our google apps account? If not, how would I accomplish ensuring that groups (not individuals) have the correct permissions within my app?
On Oct 20, 1:35 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are talking about Google APPs not Google APP Engine. It is > confusing, but I think you are talking about Deploying "APPS" not writing > code in App Engine. Correct? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zeeple > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:33 PM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] Group based authentication > > Hi folks, > > My organization has an apps account and we all have email addresses > associated with that apps account. Furthermore, we make good use of groups > in the sense of groups-of-users. What I would like is to be able to set > permission levels within my app based on what groups the users belong to. > This way, if one user is added to the developer group, for example, instead > of having to go into the app code and alter a function, I can simply add > that person to the appropriate group within google apps admin interface. Am > I making sense? > > Any advice from someone who has already done this would be coolerific. > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
