[Tickets #2117] Make Horde Permissions inheritable

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2117
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 Ticket             | 2117
 Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | Make Horde Permissions inheritable
 Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
 State              | Accepted
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | 
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2005-10-26 00:50) wrote:

>> 2)  How to determine permissions for new nodes - inherit from parent,
>> this is the way most permission systems operate (filesystems come to
>> mind), so yes, I think admins would wrap their heads around this
>> quicker.
>
> I just want to say that I don't like the idea of some permissions 
> inheriting and others not. I think we should either have no 
> inheritance, or everything inherit.

Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing. The proposed approach
doesn't inherit parent permissions automagically based on some intransparent
rule. The admin has to explicitely enable inheritence (through a checkbox or
some such) when creating a new child permission.