Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of UserAccess

Timestamp:

Jul 16, 2007 5:25:21 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Horst Meyerdierks

Comment:

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UserAccess

@@ -8 +8 @@
 control mechanisms, which we try to keep in sync with each other.
 
-There are three kinds of access levels that a user account (or the anonymous user)
+There are four kinds of access levels that a user account (or the anonymous user)
 may have:
 
- 1. User access. This is a different name for read access, but "read access" does not
+ 1. Ticket access. This is a different name for read access, but "read access" does not
     quite hit the spot as this includes the permission to create and comment on tickets.
-    This includes read access to the svn repository.
+    This excludes read access to the svn repository.
+ 1. User access. This is the same as ticket access, but also includes read access to
+    the svn repository.
  1. Developer access. This is a different name for read/write access. The permissions
     are a superset of user access. This includes read/write access to the svn repository.
@@ -19 +21 @@
     but no access at all to the svn repository (other than browsing it through the wiki).
 
-To make these access levels real, the permission groups "user" and "developer" have been
+To make these access levels real, the permission groups "ticket", "user" and "developer" have been
 defined. There is also an hourly job on the system that translates this information into
 svn repository access permissions. This is done in case that an admin has changed access
 to the trac environment. There is no permission group "admin", as this has no effect on
-the svn repository and can be handled by the trac permission TRAC_ADMIN.
+the svn repository and can be handled by the single trac permission TRAC_ADMIN.
 
 Admins and developers have an "Admin" button in the wiki. When they use it an admin
 can select General : Permissions to configure which users have which level of access:
 
- 1. To grant anonymous read access (user access) use the bottom right panel with subject
-    "anonymous" and group "user".
+ 1. To grant anonymous read access for wiki and ticketing only (ticket access)
+    use the bottom right panel with subject "anonymous" and group "ticket".
+ 1. To grant anonymous read access, including read access to the SVN repository
+    (user access) use the bottom right panel with subject "anonymous" and group "user".
+ 1. To grant read access for wiki and ticketing only (ticket access) to a named user
+    use the bottom right panel with the user name as subject and with group "ticket".
  1. To grant read access (user access) to a named user use the bottom right panel with
     the user name as subject and with group "user".