[TYPO3-english] Management of high number of groups with a few "roles"

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Steffen,

Steffen Gebert wrote:
> Xavier Perseguers wrote:
>> Does someone already experienced having to manage high number of groups
>> (let's say you have 50+ non-overlapping sections in your website) that
>> should be assignable to 50+ groups and for each of these sections, you
>> have let's say 3 "roles" (read-only, editor, publisher).
>>
>> The problem I see with security management is that it is not possible
>> (AFAIU) to combine group A (db and file mount points) with "role" X (ACL
>> on records and plugins) to create a special "bundle" that is assignable
>> to a user. As it seems not to be possible to give user Y read-only
>> access on T1, but editor access on subtree T2 without having to create
>> additional "logical" groups that contain both a group and a role, which
>> leads to 150+ logical groups in the backend.
> 
> I posted a similar question last week but got no answer. I'm really 
> interested in this, too! (although we don't have THAT much groups)

Oh, I did not notice your post, sorry!

Well, in my case, I would have even more groups. I'm planning using 
extension "roles" which I guess could help a bit circumvent the lack of 
"bundle" ACL separation problem but I cannot imagine managing so many 
"dumb" groups in the backend...

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Xavier Perseguers
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