Re: unix permissions theory applied to db security? Or...?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I just can't see it John.WebCat generally does not know about permissions anyway. It knows of 1 user and 1 group: nobody:nobody on Linux. So it knows nobody :|Maybe with WebCat 4?Clem.John Butler wrote: > > Could someone think out loud with me on this- ? > > I have a main.db with 10,000's of records (possibly 100,000's in the future) and each > record can be appended/replaced/deleted by a user belonging to the specific group > associated with that record PLUS everyone belonging to a group above him in the > hierarchy of groups (but no one in a more lowly group). Imagine a tree with branches > and the person at the trunk can edit any record, while the few people at the level of > the first branches can edit 75% of the records, while people at the fine twig level can > only edit a few records... But the trunk man can of course edit a twig record... > > I came up with a solution but someone suggested to me that this is really just a > permissions issue and so could be more efficiently handled than the way I thought of. > Can we apply the priciples of the way unix permissions work to efficiently allow just > the security I need for this db? (I have never run a unix box myself...) Or do you > have any thoughts on this at all you could share with me? > > Thanks for the time! > :-) > > -John > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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I just can't see it John.WebCat generally does not know about permissions anyway. It knows of 1 user and 1 group: nobody:nobody on Linux. So it knows nobody :|Maybe with WebCat 4?Clem.John Butler wrote: > > Could someone think out loud with me on this- ? > > I have a main.db with 10,000's of records (possibly 100,000's in the future) and each > record can be appended/replaced/deleted by a user belonging to the specific group > associated with that record PLUS everyone belonging to a group above him in the > hierarchy of groups (but no one in a more lowly group). Imagine a tree with branches > and the person at the trunk can edit any record, while the few people at the level of > the first branches can edit 75% of the records, while people at the fine twig level can > only edit a few records... But the trunk man can of course edit a twig record... > > I came up with a solution but someone suggested to me that this is really just a > permissions issue and so could be more efficiently handled than the way I thought of. > Can we apply the priciples of the way unix permissions work to efficiently allow just > the security I need for this db? (I have never run a unix box myself...) Or do you > have any thoughts on this at all you could share with me? > > Thanks for the time! > :-) > > -John > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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