[Yanel-dev] [Fwd: [Bug 5116] Start with Access Control User Interface (Create/Edit/Delete Users and Set Access Policies)]

[Paloma Gomez]

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Subject: [Bug 5116] Start with Access Control User Interface
(Create/Edit/Delete Users and Set Access Policies) From:   
bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.wyona.com
Date:    Wed, February 7, 2007 7:56 pm
To:      paloma.gomez at wyona.com
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http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5116

------- Additional Comments From josias.thoeny at wyona.org  2007-02-07 19:56
------- I'm not sure if it's a good idea to make the UserResource
modifiable. The Modifiable interface implies that the resource itself can
be modified, i.e. that content can be written into the resource by using
the getOutputStream() method. IMHO this does not really make sense for the
UserResource.

About the repositories, it might be cleaner if yanel would not directly
access the ac repositories. I'm thinking about the possibility of writing
e.g. an LDAP user implementation, which might not be based on a yarep
repository at all. But I'm not sure how easy that could be accomplished
with the current design anyway.

WDYT?

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I agree with you, that's why I wanted to create the User and Group
interfaces and add them to the security package. However, as we didn't
seem to reach an agreement in what a User should be and this item is a
feature of the new release, I implemented the YanelResource this way,
keeping in mind that it will have to be changed in the future to allow
non-filesystem based user (or identity) implementations. If we finally
decide something regarding the User/Identity implementation, I'll be happy
to refactor the YanelUserResource.


Regards,

Paloma