Jon Stevens wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> For Scarab, I'm going to have to extend Turbine's ACL system to be a bit
> more "complete" to say the least (that isn't a dig against it given that I
> helped design most of it, I just need additional functionality now). One
> thing that I'm going to have to add to Scarab is the concept of "Groups".
> 
> The way it looks is something like this:
> 
> "User x has Role a in Group f."
> "User x has Role b in Group f."
> "User x has Role b in Group g."
> 
> Thus, this will give me the ability to overload the concept of "Group" to
> include "Projects". Thus, I can assign permissions (through Roles) to
> "Groups" or "Projects" that the User belongs in.
> 
> The table structure looks something like this:
> 
> CREATE TABLE Group (
>    GROUPID int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
>    NAME varchar(99) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
>    DESCRIPTION varchar(1024) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
>    PRIMARY KEY (GROUPID)
> );
> 
> I would then alter the VisitorRole table to include GROUPID....
> 
> create table VisitorRole  (
>     VISITORID   integer NOT NULL,
>     ROLEID      integer NOT NULL,
>     GROUPID     integer NOT NULL,
>     PRIMARY KEY (VISITORID, ROLEID, GROUPID),
>     INDEX visitorID_roleID_index ( VISITORID, ROLEID, GROUPID )
> );
> 
> Then, I would alter all the Java code to take advantage of things.
> 
> Instead of making this a general Scarab thing, I would like to make this
> more general for others to use as well by including it in Turbine. So, what
> do you think? Can I modify the stuff in Turbine to add this feature?

+1.  Has this been suggested/implemented for Joist as well?
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Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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