oi. Larry triggered something that I had bubbling in my mind for a long time already: finer grained permissions. On Thursday 13 October 2005 02:16, Larry Garfield wrote:

2) Permissions not fine-grained enough (does "Create" include "change"?) I agree completely.  We definitely need more fine-grained and descriptive permissions.  There have been several threads about this recently, but not much code.  (I wish I had time to write some.)  The hard part is finding some standard other than "administer", which is a useless word.

What I have in mind is something to introduce a parent/child relation in permissions: hook_perm() { $perms[]->title = 'change book pages'; $perms[]->parent = 'create book pages'; return $perms; } means that 'change book pages can only be set true in admin if that role has "create book pages" perms. I am not referring to the permission on check time: only in the permissions administer page: the checkboxes would be greyed out for the permissions that cannot be set. This will allow for a much finer grained permission handling, but will immediately solve some of the clutter. Think about flexinode, for example, where some people would love a per-field permission. Bèr