[development] Even more flexibility in content management

[Larry Garfield]

On Friday 29 December 2006 11:59 am, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Why would member vs visitor be different for Other?  I don't see how it
> can be different.  The visitor is just a non-authenticated member.  The
> visitor is always assigned the non-authenticated role and can never be
> assigned another role.  The authenticated member is alwasy assigned the
> authenticated role and the role, if any, assigned to his profile.
> Group though is new to Drupal core as far as access control is
> concerned and AFAIK.  Roles could be assigned to a Group as well and
> then the member assigned a Group.  The ORed bits of all the Roles would
> determine what the user permissions are.  The Group control could be
> used to allow an authenticated member to create a sub-site and only
> members of the sub-site group could visit that content.
>
> Perhaps multiple additional roles should be allowed to be selected in
> the user profile so that the ORed bits give a user greater privilege
> with each additional role?

Er, you are aware that permissions are already ORed for any Role a user has, 
right?  If Role A has permissions 1 and 2, and Role B has permissions 3, and 
5, then a user that has both Role A and Role B checked will have permissions 
1, 2, 3, and 5.  That's been the case for as long as I've been around at 
least.  

I also don't know what you mean by Group.  Vanilla Drupal has no concept of a 
Group; there's Role, but that's not Group.  The only Group I know of is 
Organic Groups, which is another animal entirely.  Let's keep our terminology 
straight.

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