Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 18:03 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * David Fetter (david@fetter.org) wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not
> > > work  prospectively.  We have no way ATM to store permissions for an
> > > object  that does not currently exist.
> > 
> > There have been previous discussions of prospective permissions
> > changes.  Are we restarting them here?
> 
> Having default permissions for new objects (something a couple of us are
> working towards) would help with this situation some.  I don't think the
> ground Jeff's proposal would cover is entirely covered by just having
> default permissions though.
> 

One case that it would not cover is creating new roles that you would
like to have access to existing objects. Defaults may be useful
independently, though, so I think the proposals are overlapping, but
generally different.

Regards,Jeff Davis