[drupal-docs] Permissions page

[Larry Garfield]

There's two points here.

1) Permission names are not very descriptive if you don't already know what 
they mean.
Solution: This patch: http://drupal.org/node/30984 adds inline description 
capability.  Unfortunately it didn't get in before the form API switch, and I 
don't have time at the moment to learn the new form API in order to update 
the patch. :-(  If someone else would like to tackle that, it would 
definitely help with this issue.

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.

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:15 pm, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We need docs for some permissions...
>
> What the heck is "post comments without approval", really? Is it useful
> for anonymous users? Authenticated users? Or it's something for those with
> super cow powers? "create url aliases" that's fine, but can I change them?
> I guess others can find some other questions, but I think these proves my
> point.
>
> Regards
>
> NK

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