Re: Proposal: User 'Everybody'

["Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>]

Alexey Parshin wrote:
> I'm reading your e-mails. I just don't see the need to work with
> single-user groups, at least - I'd prefer not to create such groups as
> a part of user-creation process.
How do you grant access to individual users then? Create a
new single-user group every time it's needed?
> Also, creating a group 'Everybody' would probably simplify a
> permission search but it would also slow it down. I propose to create
> such group but don't include anyone in there - we can simply assume
> all the users are there in our SQL.
So, you want to special-case it? Wouldn't that slow things down just as
well?
Although.. I guess we could populate groups temp table with group Everybody,
without having data in permanent table.. Hmm.. I'll say - your call..
>
> 2007/4/16, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com
> <mailto:ilya@total-knowledge.com>>:
>
>     Man, aren't you reading my mails? ;-)
>     If you need to give access to single individual, you use
>     their personal group. This avoids having to search through
>     two tables, thus making code simpler.
>
>     Alexey Parshin wrote:
>     > What's the idea behind a group per person?
>     >
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