[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 48 Document the --rights output format

[Jan Zelený]

Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jan Zelený wrote:
> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/563
> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/588
> > 
> > Jan
> 
> This is a good start, I think we need to include some guidance on why
> this exists and why it exists where it does.
> 
> It exists so a user interface can know in advance what the current
> user's rights are for a given entry so that the user experience is
> better (currently used by the Web UI to disable attributes that are not
> writable).
> 
> It appears in the add and mod commands to avoid having to do a show
> after an entry is added or updated.
> 
> rob

I updated the patch with a note that it is primarily used for internal 
purposes of CLI and WebUI, I think this should be sufficient description.

I also deleted the line converting unicode strings to str because it broke 
JSON-RPC communication.

Jan
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