[Building Sakai] New Roles Tool

[Nguni Phakela]

Hi Steve and Neal,

Thanx for the replies. Will give the suggestions a try and see what I come up with. 

 Cheers,
Nguni

http://www.nguni52.co.za
Sent from my iPhone 4

On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nguni,
> 
> You can just use the Admin realms tool for this. Create a new role in the site template realm for the site type and assign the permissions. Note that it doesn't backfill the roles to the existing sites though, there is a web service to do this. I believe also a contrib tool to assist in the backfill (iirc).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 16/08/2012, at 22:35, Nguni Phakela <nguni52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Is there a tool that has been developed for 2.9 that allows one to be able to create different roles and provide different permissions to roles. For example, we would like to have some users to be able to use the tool "Become User", however, we don't want these users to have admin rights/password.
>> 
>> We are running 2.8.0. We can port this tool and see if it works on 2.8.0, or modify accordingly if it doesn't work 'out-of-the-box'.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> -- 
>> Nguni Phakela
>> 
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