[Building Sakai] Displaying Course Tool only to Administrators in Sakai

[Nate Angell]

I thought the issue is that what identifies an admin is membership in the admin workspace, not a role. Seems like there is a test for that, or maybe it is easier to hook it to some other admin privilege as suggested earlier. 

- Nate

On Apr 9, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the issue here might be that roles can be customised per site, and many tools actually allow this customisation to occur within the site, so role_1 in site_a might not necessarily be the same as role_2 in site_b.
> 
> Maybe we need some more permissions that identify admin people.
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> On 09/04/2011, at 5:17 AM, Zhen Qian wrote:
> 
>> Seth:
>> 
>> I think the transition from role.required to function.required is actually documented inside SAK-4120 that Kara referred to: 
>> 
>> Nuno originally proposed the ticket for "roles.allow" and "roles.deny" configuration. However, Chuck eventually implemented it based on permission: 
>> 
>> "This solution is different than proposed in the patches because it is based on Sakai security functions rather than roles. The patches also proposed an allow/deny pattern. The use of functions instead of roles aligns much better with the Sakai security model and does not require the allow/deny."
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> - Zhen
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
>> Zhen Qian wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe besides function, we can request a feature to restrict tool display based on roles, e.g. role.require?
>> 
>> I distinctly remember this coming up a few years back. It's a hazy memory, but I think that approach may have been abandoned in favor on the current "functions.require" one.
>> 
>> Of course, I haven't found  the corresponding Jira. Yet.
>> 
>> Seth
>> 
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