Re: group role membership - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: group role membership
Date
Msg-id 43735DB4.7060400@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: group role membership  (Tom.Zschockelt@flender.com)
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Tom.Zschockelt@flender.com wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> well my first thought for this was :
> 
> - to extend the property window of a grouprole by a new tab called 
> 'members of this role'
> - in this new tab integrate a treectrl which contains all direct member 
> (roles) and if an item is a role with sub-members go down to the next 
> recursive level
> 
> e.g.
> 
> - / root <name-of-current-group>
>   |
>   | - loginrole1 ( without member )
>   | - loginrole2 ( without member )
>   | - loginrole3 ( with member )
>        | 
>        | - loginrole4 (without member )
>   | - grouprole_a ( with member )
>       |
>       | -- ...
> 
> 
> and so on
> 
> From my point of view it'll not necessary ( or not a highpriority item ) 
> to modify the underlying data from within this "new tab".

This is possible for <=8.0 groups, and it's a common task to assign a 
bunch of users to a new group/role, so I'm inclined not to agree.
> 
> (An other solution could be a simple reporting solution to get a list of 
> people who have access to a certain object.)

An additional "who has which rights on this object" dialog from context 
menu?

Regards,
Andreas


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