[dev] SQL Permissioning

[Mike Cochrane]

This was why i started writting the musql VFS driver... but didn't get far on
it, and doesn't look like i will. For a backend the whole thing it pretty easy,
just modify the access checking to use horde.perms instead of the simple (has
read acces or is owner) sort of stuff it does at the moment.. 

implementing the UI so you don't break anything is another problem, that i can't
really offer a suggestion for at the moment.

- Mike :-)

Quoting Michael Varghese <mike.varghese@ascellatech.com>:

> So far, we have made many changes to gollem, allowing it to use multiple
> backends not only including ftp, but local file system and SQL.  Still, I'm
> hoping to move this project more towards a document management system that
> supports extended permissioning.  I understand that I can use the
> horde.perms api to handle the permissions, but I'm confused at how I should
> implement this while maintaining compatability with the FTP and Local VFS
> drivers
> 
> Extended permissioning includes the capability to allow multiple users
> specific access to a file and also allowing multiple groups specific access
> to a file.
> 
> For example, I want to be able to give user "john(owner)" read/modify/delete
> privileges, give user "rick" read/modify access and user "joe" read access.
> Then I also want to be able to give the "admin" group read/modify/delete
> while the group "users" has only read access.  Everyone else would have no
> access
> 
> The problem I am having is that, if I implement something like this, how
> would this be displayed correctly in gollem seeing as how the 2 other
> backends do not use the same type of permissioning?  I would have to change
> gollem in order to display these permissions correctly.  Are there any ideas
> of how to deal with this?
> 
> -mike
> 
> 
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