On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 13:39:09 +0200, Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The standard talks about 2 distinct concepts: USER and ROLE (4.34). I'm > not sure it is a good idea to drop the user concept to replace it by role. > If you do so, you may miss something about what roles are about.
I think it is a good idea to make users synonymous with roles with regard to privileges. This will make checking for access simpler and mistakes less likely. The special part of being a user in addition to a role is that being a user allows for authentication. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
