Re: ACL - How to handle multiple nested levels of accounts

2009-04-11 Thread jmcneese
i guess the theoretical limit on a 32bit system is 4,294,967,296 (2^32), but my first question would be do you need unlimited groups, or unlimited roles? roles being the classification of user where actual ACL permissions are attached (role "a" can access the users::add method, but role "b" is no

Re: ACL - How to handle multiple nested levels of accounts

2009-04-10 Thread zonium
Thank you jmcneese for showing me an alternative to the cake's ACL. Your articles help me understand weaknesses of ACL when used to safeguard records. It's was interesting to see immediate attentions/ reactions from the core developers on those articles as well. One problem (in my case) with the

Re: ACL - How to handle multiple nested levels of accounts

2009-04-07 Thread jmcneese
would this help? http://jmcneese.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/row-level-model-access-control-for-cakephp/ On Apr 7, 1:06 am, zonium wrote: > I'm rebuilding the admin part of a legacy application which has > multiple account types and multiple levels of authority and I’m > thinking using ACL and see

ACL - How to handle multiple nested levels of accounts

2009-04-07 Thread zonium
I'm rebuilding the admin part of a legacy application which has multiple account types and multiple levels of authority and I’m thinking using ACL and seeking some advice. Here are some background: The application needs to handle 4 types of accounts 1-Administrators 2-ContentManagers 3-SiteModer