Advanced permissions/user properties

[Steve Shipway]

Alex Burger wrote:
> 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 is exactly what we need, and the best way I have seen (so far) to
implement it.  In particular it has backwards compatibility and  does
not involve an additional directive.  Much simpler to do it via groups
rather than at a per-user level, and much more maintainable.

This is the way I'd like to see it implemented in the official tree,
maybe with a nagios.cfg option to allow you to set the default to be :rw
or :r (so that once you've fully implemented things you can change
default to be :r, best to default to the lower level)

Steve

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Steve Shipway
ITSS, University of Auckland 
(09) 3737 599 x 86487
s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz

 

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