Still looking for a reply for this message! C'mon, it's only been...what... 2-1/2 years?? Seriously. I was just looking at this again and thought to myself, "I remember asking that on web2py-user... I wonder if I missed the response?" Turns out I didn't!
-- Joe On Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 12:26:11 AM UTC-7, Joe Barnhart wrote: > > I find I need the "impersonate" feature for a website I'm building -- it > is the perfect solution to supporting users who forget how to work the > website or need help setting up their profile information. In fact, I have > a group called "support" who I am tasking with this chore and I want them > to be able impersonate any of the users. > > EXCEPT, of course, me. I have a group for the people who run and control > every aspect of the website, and only my partner and I have logons at this > level. I don't want any "support" group members to be able to impersonate > my "root" group. I may add a "manager" group at some point who should also > not be accessible to the support staff. I guess I should also prevent > support staff from impersonating each other as well. I'm no killjoy, but I > want to prevent "pranking" and epic April Fools jokes between my support > reps before they even get started. > > And I, of course, as "root" want to be able to impersonate anybody on my > site. The only difference between me and the NSA is that my employees > won't have to wonder or guess if I'm looking over their shoulder -- I'll > tell them straight up! (just kidding. NSA also has a larger budget and > cooler toys. there are actually several differences) > > I can see how I can add an "impersonate" group, and add it to either the > auth_user table or specific rows, but that doesn't give me the layers I'm > looking for. That is: > > support --> impersonate users > managers --> impersonate support, users > root --> impersonate all of the above > > Have I missed something obvious? > > -- Joe "benevolent dictator" B. > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
