[Fedora-directory-users] Show Effective Rights via the console

[Jonathan Barber]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:41:51PM +0200, Ersin Er wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use the "Show Effective Rights" feature via the console,
> however I get nothing when I check the box. Just an "Entry Level Rights:"
> label is displayed at the bottom of the window but no value is displayed for
> neither the Entry nor attributes.
> 
> Do I have to do some more configuration to make this work?

I would guess that this is probably because you're not binding as the
Directory Manager, but rather the admin user, who doesn't have
permission to see the effective rights of other entries.

Now I have a question, is it possible to allow FDS to show the effective
rights of any entry in the server for any user (read access to the entry
permitting)? The documentation here:

http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Get_Effective_Rights_Design#.22G.22_Permission

suggests not. Are there plans for this to change? I ask as I am writing
an application for editing entries in FDS, and would like to customise
the display to only show those actions on an entry that the user can
actually make. I do not want to store the authentication credentials of
the Directory Manager within the application.

Cheers.

> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Ersin

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