hi, there are two management interfaces for smallwiki available at cincom store: 1) SmallWiki Admin Default: interface to the original security model of smallwiki. easy to use and understand 2) SmallWiki Admin: interface to the extended security model of smallwiki. more complex. 1) functionality of default interface: ====================== - create/delete users - assign roles to users - create/delete roles - assign permissions to roles restrictions that apply via the interface: - an admin can only assign those roles to users that he has created himself or that he owns himself. - an admin can only delete the roles that he has created himself. - an admin can only delete users that he has created himself. - an admin can only assign those permissions to a role that he owns himself. - BUT: an admin can redefine any role he wants to. therefore he is able to remove permissions from some other admin roles! modification to original model: - when a user visits the root of the wiki tree, the permissions of his role(s) are removed (cleanup). (this is necessary when a role is not defined at the root of the wiki tree, but at some 'lower' level in the tree.) 2) functionality of extended interface: ======================== - create/delete users - assign roles to users - create/delete roles - assign permissions to roles - create a barrier role in order to stop the acquisition mechanism for the other roles at the same level. restrictions that apply via the interface: - an admin can only manage roles and users that he has created himself. - an admin can only manage permissions that he owns himself. i.e., he can only add/remove those permissions that he owns. modification to the original model: - the computation of roles is done in a different way (using some sort of acquisition that is similar to the zope model) FAQ: ==== 1) when should I use the interface 1? => when just one administrator is managing the wiki site. 2) when should I use the interface 2? => when you have several administrators, that are responsible for 'their' part (structures, roles, users) of the wiki site. documentation: ========== - the documentation (the difference of the two models are explained and discussed) of these two models is available at: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/smallwiki/smallwiki_models_description.pdf - the management interface to the default securtity model described in this docmentation (smallwiki_models_description.pdf) is already enhanced: - an admin can only assign those roles to users that he has created himself or that he owns himself. - an admin can only delete the roles that he has created himself. - an admin can only delete users that he has created himself. - an admin can only assign those permissions to a role that he owns himself. cheers, david.