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

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Thu Feb 17 21:05:27 UTC 2011


Jan Zelený wrote:
> 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

ack, pushed to master




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