We really need this feature from a usability standpoint. When we set up new sites, we create an Admin role that is assigned to someone at our client's office. They should have permissions to do nearly everything on the site. Pretty much the only thing I don't give them is access to the devel module. Checking all of those damned permissions is a freaking pain in the ass. It'd be much better to be able to click check all (maybe you get a warning alert here?) and then uncheck the one or two I don't want them to have, rather than being forced to click a hundred fifty times as I currently am. Darren Oh wrote:
Giving a permission to the authenticated user and the anonymous users gives it to all roles. If you are speaking of giving a single role all permissions, I would be careful. It would be better for modules to set defaults for their permissions and then change each permission individually.
On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 5:48 PM, Alessandro Feijó <patrao@legendas.feijo.info> wrote:
I will, eventually :) You might want to take a look at the issue where these check-all boxes were added: http://drupal.org/node/84961#comment-449568
I'm not saying that should be set in stone, but when those select-all boxes were added they were purposefully not added to the permissions page because of the potential for accidentally doing a lot of damage on that form.
In general, there's no need to ask whether something should be added. Just make a patch and create an issue.
Regards, Greg
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