Hugo Ahlenius wrote:
>
> I actually had in mind an unlimited parent/child relationships in
> the groups. So that the super-parent would be the "Admin" group,
> that all other groups are derived from, like "superusers" inherit
> the rights from the admin group, but with rights X,Y & Z revoked.
> And the "regular users group" is a child of the "superusers" group,
> etc.

You do realize this is a "fail open" model? I.e., if somehing goes
wrong the user defaults to being Admin, instead of being nobody. Most
security systems are designed as "fail close" systems.

Jochem


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