[Rt-devel] PATCH Inherit CF rights from object. Comments sought.

[Rolf Grossmann]

Todd Chapman wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:37:32PM +0200, Rolf Grossmann wrote:
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>>Todd Chapman wrote:
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>>>We have losts of custom fields. I got tired of setting and
>>>updating rights on these CFs, especially when the rights were
>>>always the same as the ticket (or asset).
>>>
>>>I came up with the following patch which allow you to set
>>>a CF to inherit See/Show and Modify from the object it
>>>is a CF of.
>>>
>>>Looking for comments, such as:
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>>>1 This is a good idea and implementation.
>>>2 This is a good idea but rotten implementation.
>>>3 This is a stupid idea, what we need is a better way to
>>>modify the rights on a bunch of CFs in bulk.
>>>
>>>I myself am leaning toward 3, but I implemented 1 just for fun.
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>>So what's wrong with simply giving your users the (global) 
>>SeeCustomField right?
>>If they can't see the ticket (or asset) they should not be able to see 
>>the fields. What am I missing?
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>>Rolf
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>That is an interesting idea. I have been operating under the
>assumption that CF rights should be as restrictive as possible.
>What you are suggesting is that access to the CF is really
>governed by the more restrictive of CF rights or Ticket rights.
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Ok, now I know what I was missing. I was only thinking about See/Show 
rights, where that is the case. For modify, you're right, you do not 
need the ModifyTicket right.

So, the InheritSee right would be unnecessary, while the InheritModify 
sounds like a good idea. I can't quite discern from looking at the 
patch, what the *-Magic versions would do. Care to explain?

Rolf