[Building Sakai] Global permissions for a user

[Steve Swinsburg]

I think a setting for a site that disables chat and anything else for all
members of the site, everywhere, would be a good one.

Cheers
On 08/01/2014 9:29 PM, "Adrian Fish" <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at implementing a lock down function for the portal chat, in
> support of an exam scenario. Here's the ticket:
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23258
>
> The various approaches I have considered all have a drawback of some sort.
> Adding a function, portal.chat.disabled, for instance, to !site.helper will
> literally disable chat across all sites while checked. Adding the same
> function to a particular site will disable for the site, but not for My
> Workspace, so would not stop a user from chatting with their Profile2
> connections during the test. You'd have to disable My Workspace for the
> test duration as well. Basically, with all the solutions I've been able to
> think of, great care would still have to be taken to ensure that portal
> chat gets locked down.
>
> What would be nice, I think, would be some UI where you could literally
> pick a worksite and then some functions to block for the members of that
> site. By 'functions' I mean global stuff, like portal chat and Profile2
> messaging. The portal could check this acl when rendering the portal chat
> UI. Profile2 could be extended to check this list too.
>
> Thoughts? Do we have this already, in some form?
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
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