Hi,

Working on https://sourceforge.net/p/ledger-smb/bugs/1395/ (Unable to
remove role from user), I'm running into the (old) problem that all
postgresql roles are considered relevant. What I mean by that is that
LedgerSMB creates roles prefixed with "lsmb_<company>__" (or an alternative
specified in the defaults table), but roles which don't match that prefix
are considered possibly relevant (because they could have been created by
users/admins).

I'd like to propose to change that rule to:

"We define a namespace (lsmb_<company>__) and manage that namespace.
Anything outside that namespace *can* be created outside of the realm of
the application, so it's not the responsibility of the application to
manage it."

What I mean by that is that the functions 'admin__get_roles" and
"admin__get_roles_for_user" return only the PostgreSQL roles which are in
the namespace *we* manage for the *current* company.

If I change the above two functions to do exactly that, I know how to fix
the issue. I'll submit a PR based on this change, even though it'll be in
the middle of a 1.4 series...


Long term, I'd like all role references to be prefix-relative.

-- 
Bye,

Erik.

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