Advanced permissions/user properties

[Alex Burger]

Alex Burger wrote:
> The more I think about it, the more I think we are looking at this the 
> wrong way.  With file system or application permissions, we would assign 
> a group to a folder/object, and then pick what rights the group would 
> have. Why don't we do the same thing with Nagios?
> 
> Leave the groups as they are, but modify the host and service 
> contact_groups command?  For example:
> 
> define host{
>           host_name               localhost
>           contact_groups          netops:rw, helpdesk:r
> }
> 
> For backwards compatibility, if no permissions are set, the defaults 
> would be rw so the following would be the same:
> 
> define host{
>           host_name               localhost
>           contact_groups          netops, helpdesk:r
> }
> 
> If a user was in both the netops and helpdesk group, the user should 
> have rw access.
> 
> This will take a bit more work to implement, but I think it makes more 
> sense.  What do you think?
> 
> Alex

Attached is a patch for 2.5 that implements what I described above.  It 
works on both hosts and services.

The following four lines are are examples of read/write access for 
netops and helpdesk:

            contact_groups          netops, helpdesk
            contact_groups          netops, helpdesk:rw
            contact_groups          netops:rw, helpdesk
            contact_groups          netops:rw, helpdesk:rw

The following two lines are are examples of read/write access for netops 
and read only (view only) for helpdesk:

            contact_groups          netops, helpdesk:r
            contact_groups          netops:rw, helpdesk:r

Alex

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