Advanced permissions/user properties

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

First off: thanks for all your work, it didn't quite expect so
much (and such constructive/worthwile) feedback.

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Alex Burger wrote:
> How about:
> 
> r: View in web interface
> 
> x: Submit commands for this host/service
> 
> w: Not really needed yet.  Maybe some of the other programs that allow 
> you to modify the configuration files could use w to allow a user to 
> modify the host / service.
> 
> n: Notify if contact has a pager or email defined

I think one could make a case for x being everything that
concerns the current state of an object, i.e. mainly
acknowledgement(s). The w flag could be used for en/disabling
(semi)permanent stuff, like disabling active checks. 

On the other hand, many actions (like schedule downtime) would
fall into a grey area, so maybe using x for all of them and
"keeping" w for later is better.

> I also changed it so that you will only see a service if you are a 
> contact for it.  I think this is the same change that Ton mentioned in 
> his last email.  I did this to test the 'r' permission.

This was the default in our installation (by way of not having an
asterisk in the corresponding line(s) in the main config file.

> 
> For backwards compatibility, the default would be rwxn.
> 
> So, the engineers would have: nrx, customer: nr and helpdesk r.
> 
> Attached is an updated patch.

I'll try to get a peek at it this week.

Thanks, again (all of you).

Regards,
Tobias


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