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Posted by LegacyUser on 28-Feb-2003 09:47

Matt,

ThankÂ´s a lot for the info.

I think I will be able to do what I want with that information.

Regards

Mike

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Von: Matt Baker

Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 15:47

An: dev@icf.possenet.org

Betreff: Re: AW: defining security without the tools

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately there are no direct API's to modify security; I mean the

security manager only does reads from security repository, not writes.

Right now the existing security UI manages things using the SDO's that

were defined against the security tables. If your familair with the

framework you should be able to dig up the SDO names without too much

trouble. The actual implementation is based entirely upon a single

table (well mostly, the user table is also included) in the database so

it should actually be fairly simple to write.

I suggest that a bug/enhancement be logged in issuezilla that this needs

to be supported.

One thing I will point out here, is that the security system is being

enhanced in either the upcoming release or the next one to support a lot

more security features, although this may not require much, since the

underlying system isn't changing a lot, just the logic. Take this into

consideration when building your UI, you may need to revisit it down the

road.

mattB

Mike Liewehr wrote:

Matt,

does this mean that there are no procedures/SDOÂ´s or something similar

that maintain security settings ?

Do I have to create/update the corresponding database tables directly

?!?

Mike

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Von: Matt Baker

Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 15:24

An: dev@icf.possenet.org

Betreff: Re: defining security without the tools

Hi Mike,

Check out docs.possenet.org. There is a full set of documentation on

the structure within the database of how security information is stored.

You'll probably need to use the Open API for SDOs in order to do it.

mattB

Mike Liewehr wrote:

Hi all,

we want to set the security definitions for repository objects from

outside the progress tools (in fact we are writing our own security

maintenance tool in VB).

After looking through the documentation of the security manager API it

seems that there are only methods for doing security checks, but not for

defining the security restrictions.

Is this correct or am I overlooking something ?

Any info on how to get hands on related documentation would be greatly

appreciated!

Kind regards

Mike Liewehr