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Re: Recursive operations and authz

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:47:27 +0200

On 13 May 2015 at 12:19, Markus Schaber <m.schaber_at_codesys.com> wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
>
>> Von: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
>> Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:21:37 +0200:
>> > Hi devs,
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > (1) Is there something fundamentally wrong with this
>> > approach, e.g. braking major use-cases?
>>
>> How about inventing a 'c' permission, in addition to the existing 'r'
>> and 'rw', with the following semantics: if the authz file contains
>> '[/tags] alice=c', then alice is authorized to create immediate
>> children of /tags, possibly as adds-with-history, without needing
>> recursive write access to the copy destination. Would this address
>> your use-case?
>
> I like the general suggestion, but 'c' made me immediately think 'copy',
> which could be the right to copy the tree to somewhere else.
>
> Thus, I suggest 'a' for 'add', the right to add children (including their subtrees).

It's 'c' for 'create', pretty standard in the ACL world. Let's not
invent our own terminology.

-- Brane
Received on 2015-05-13 15:47:42 CEST

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