[dev] Residual preferences defeating locked prefs

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> I don't know whether this is intentional behavior or not... But user 
> preferences stored in a preferences storage system will overrule any
> locked 
> preferences that may be set by an admin.
> 
> For example, say an admin originally has the maintenance preferences
> turned 
> on and all sub-preferences unlocked (e.g. purge_trash_interval).  A user 
> goes and makes modifications to the global prefs (say the default value
> is 
> to purge the trash once a month) storing the new value (let's say they 
> choose every login) in the local preferences storage (e.g. LDAP, SQL).  
> Then the admin decides to lock the 'purge_trash_interval' pref.  
> Unfortunately, since theis key exists in the user's stored preferences it
> 
> blows away any admin specified preferences.  This is beacuse it does not 
> appear that the Prefs Storage classes do any check on whether a specified
> 
> preference is locked or not.
> 
> Is this the desired behavior?  i don't think the admin should be 
> responsible for cleaning out the entire preferences storage system every 
> time they lock a preference - especially considering that the locked 
> preference may only be a temporary thing.

This is the intended behaviour though I don't know anymore why. I asked the
same question a while ago, so you'll probably find the answer in the archives.

Jan.

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