Dennis Gearon wrote:

> So it involves preventing the PHP module from using files that the
> initial user of the executing PHP file doesn't have permission for, that
> probably DOES have to be in mod-midgard, unless the files were ALL
> encrypted and the user needed the code word for each role to unecrypt
> it. SLOW. OTOH, if it were done in ORACLE, then each user would have the
> user permissions of their ORACLE account, sub/account and thaat could
> block it. I wonder what the permission scheme of MySQL is by comparison.
>
> Instead of making the server do the permissions, make the database do
> it!

Yep, I've been thinking about that too. Unfortunately, MySQL implements
user permissions by a single, dedicated mysql database, so in order to
give a host manager the proper priveleges to manage users, you'd have to
give him modify access to the MySQL permissions database. I don't think
you want to go there.

Plus, having the database regulate access doesn't solve everything.
MySQL, for example, only has table-level access controls, whereas in
Midgard we want to do row-level access control.

Emile



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