[rt-users] User right to save searches

Ken Crocker kfcrocker at lbl.gov
Thu Oct 1 14:54:31 EDT 2009


Scott,

Yea. I can see that. We kind of went around that by the way we use LDAP 
for our sign-ons. It doesn't matter what they do to their password in 
"Preferences", it always gets overridden by LDAP. In other words, they 
can't screw it up.

Kenn
LBNL

On 10/1/2009 10:02 AM, Lander, Scott wrote:
> Ken,   Thanks for your reply.
>  
> My setup is similar - actually - identical.    Although I have given, 
> globally to privileged users, the rights CreateSavedSearch, 
> EditSavedSearch and ShowSavedSearch along with all other rights, they 
> still can't actually save a search unless I also give them ModifySelf 
> (which presents the preferences tab that I don't want them to have....)
>
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> *From:* Ken Crocker [mailto:kfcrocker at lbl.gov]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:39 PM
> *To:* Lander, Scott
> *Cc:* rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> *Subject:* Re: [rt-users] User right to save searches
>
> Scott,
>
> We grant all the Create, save, edit, etc. search rights to all 
> privileged users at the global level. Since we only grant the 
> "SeeQueue", "CreatTicket", & "ShowTicket" rights to a queue at the 
> Queue level only, by granting the search rights globally, the actual 
> queues they can sees defers to the rights granted at the Queue level. 
> Much less maintenance AND everyone has all the "search" rights to 
> whatever Queue they can see. Hope this helps.
>
> Kenn
> LBNL
>
> On 10/1/2009 8:37 AM, Lander, Scott wrote:
>> It appears that for a user to be able to save their searches, I have 
>> to give them rights to the preferences tab.   I really don't want 
>> them to be able to, for instance, change their passwords, which is 
>> under the preferences tab (they authenticate via ldap, and this would 
>> change the local password - it would get confusing....)
>>  
>> Am I missing something obvious?
>>  
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>>  
>>  
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