https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149926
--- Comment #4 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> --- (In reply to prrvchr from comment #0) > Would it not be possible to add to Base the management of the Roles of the > underlying database? > > This new graphical interface should be very similar to the existing one for > user management... and would allow a more complete management of databases. > Under which circumstances would you want the role management to appear in the UI? More particularly, which database backend would you want role management for ? Most server backends require admin specific rights to be awarded in order to change or create roles. These would not normally be accessible to a non-privileged user. How do you then decide which parts of the role management to make available to whom, and in what way ? How would you make that applicable to all of the database backends supported by LO ? Far from being a simple solution, this could turn out to be quite complicated, depending on how this might be implemented. For example, if I have DBA privileges on a mysql backend, I can do pretty much what I like to the "users" table apart from apply functions that are specific to role management, e.g. encryption of passwords, and which are not supported via the UI by the native connector driver or the corresponding JDBC driver (maybe possible via the Tools > SQL menu using DDL). By default, I can also see all of the tables of the mysql schema in the UI, and modify via the UI certain elements of those tables. It isn't entirely clear to me what you would like to see, or how you would like to see it within the UI. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
