Excellent references, Bčr. Thanks for posting them.<br><br>I have a similar concern about our permission system becoming a muddied mixture of models, resulting in a system that is incredibly hard to grok by administrators and users -- and maybe by even some developers.
<br><br>Although it doesn't seem to really directly bear on chx's proposal, I can see how his proposed change may set a course for Drupal permissions which should be thought out first, as Bčr suggests.<br>