RE: [cobalt-developers] Working with (was: worrried about) Sausalito

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Please DON'T take this discussion off list, as Sausalito and it's
implementation are highly topical (and important to me personally).

Thanks.

--Brett Barron
Kaleidoscope

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From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of vic@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Working with (was: worrried about)
Sausalito


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tim Hockin wrote:

> vic@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > into spanish for our project. Do you think we could get our fingers at
> > them during this week?
>
> I can't answer that, I'll have to defer.
Well I'll try to keep my clients at bay.
>
>

>
> What kinds of applications?  There is a pretty grave security hole in
> doing this, because of the fact that passwords and authkeys get passed
> around.  We had great debate as to whether we would even support the
> admin interface on a non-SSL session.
>
> Sausalito is a great way to build UI's for configuing things, but CCE is
> not meant to replace mySQL or some other backend.  the UIFC toolkit is
> very tightly bound to CCE, so one of the things I want to do is get a
> UIFC that can live without CCE.
>
> I am working on teh manual now, so hopefully I'll be able to see and
> earmark things like this that we need to work on.  If you have more
> items you want to see, feel free to post them here.  We're listening.
>
At present I'm thinking more on something along the lines of the Webmail
and Address book applications. We use PostgreSQL, for our data, as I've
been working with SQL since the '80s I've come to like transactions :)

There are several things I'd like to know:
Is it possible to have several kinds of users with different privilege
levels? I've seen in the manual that there is a ServerScriptHelper method
called getAccessRights, does it means we can give different access rights
to different users or groups?

If the above is possible, would it be possible to create new tabs on the
upper side (the green ones in the TrueBlue style) as top level menus? This
way it would be possible to present different options to users depending
on their access level, just like the admin and normal users tabs are
different.

The reason I'm pestring you with these questions is that our application
needs four different classes of user, appart from the system admin, and
our customer has gone crazy with the Qubes since we bought our first Qube2
last year and the new user interface has made him crazier.

Again-thank-full-for-your-response-and-time-ly yours, Vic

P.S.: Do you think we should move this conversation off the list, or do
you agree with me that my pestering could be useful to some other
developers?

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