[Fedora-directory-users] Show Effective Rights via the console

[Ersin Er]

Hi!

On 12/6/06, Jonathan Barber <jon at compbio.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:41:51PM +0200, Ersin Er wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to use the "Show Effective Rights" feature via the console,
> > however I get nothing when I check the box. Just an "Entry Level
> Rights:"
> > label is displayed at the bottom of the window but no value is displayed
> for
> > neither the Entry nor attributes.
> >
> > Do I have to do some more configuration to make this work?
>
> I would guess that this is probably because you're not binding as the
> Directory Manager, but rather the admin user, who doesn't have
> permission to see the effective rights of other entries.


You are perfectly right. It just worked when I tried as the Direcotory
Manager.
Thank you very much.

Now I have a question, is it possible to allow FDS to show the effective
> rights of any entry in the server for any user (read access to the entry
> permitting)? The documentation here:
>
>
> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Get_Effective_Rights_Design#.22G.22_Permission
>
> suggests not. Are there plans for this to change? I ask as I am writing
> an application for editing entries in FDS, and would like to customise
> the display to only show those actions on an entry that the user can
> actually make. I do not want to store the authentication credentials of
> the Directory Manager within the application.
>
> Cheers.
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Ersin
>
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Ersin
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