hi guys,
i'm struggling to understand how user management works in turbine. i've read
all the docs (and looked at the code), but a few things are still unclear.
maybe i'm just dumb, or maybe it's friday afternoon syndrome, but i'd
appreciate it if someone could try to answer the following questions for me:
1) what exactly is the difference between a role and a group? why do we need
both? i understand that groups don't have permissions, but roles do. what is
the purpose of this? at first i assumed groups were then only a tool to aid
administration (performing the same operation on many users), but then i
noticed that...
2) the TURBINE_USER_GROUP_ROLE defines triplets of users, groups and roles.
this means a user can't be associated with a group without being associated
with a role - what is the logic behind that? and finally,
3) how would user administration work? what is the effect of deleting a
group? how do permissions filter through roles?
it would be much clearer if someone could provide a concrete example.
something like
users: britney, shania, jennifer
groups: good, bad, ugly
roles: admin, user, visitor
permissions: sing, sleep, eat
and then relate these concepts to each other, explain the implications, etc,
etc.
any help would be appreciated. i need to write some user management stuff
(and i figured the turbine way would be a good example). i would be happy to
contribute the admin tool back to turbine.
thanks,
graeme
Graeme Pyle
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