Forums admin security and roles

[mgalal]

Hi,
I was fiddling around trying to find out how to assign moderators,admin, and permissions. I could only find forum specific attributes such as Read/Write, etc. How to do assign a user a moderator role, or an admin role of specific category, where they can add forums themselves. The DB didn't give a meclue to the different between 'user' and 'admin' except that they have different groups. Is the logic behind all this encapsulated in the code? Does that mean I have to create some users with admin role outright?

Thanks for your hard work.
-Medhat Galal

[julien1]

The group for the forums are specified in the Nukes security which is defined in the jboss-service.xml of the Core module and is saved in the database.

For instance :

<permission
 group="JBoss-forums"
 component-pattern="bb::"
 instance-pattern=".*:.*:"
 level="MODERATE"/>

It will give the moderator role on all the forums for the users in the JBoss-forums group. You can change the target category/forum in the instance pattern. Example : instance-pattern="(a|b):.*:" will specify all the forums in the category a or b.

Obviously Nukes lacks a security rule editor, because you have to modify the security attribute through the JMX-console.

julien

[javamac]

Does this mean that I should create a "moderator" group, assign people to that moderator group and then update the jboss-service.xml file?

<permission
 group="moderator"
 component-pattern="bb::"
 instance-pattern=".*:.*:"
 level="MODERATE"/>

"cooper" wrote:
The group for the forums are specified in the Nukes security which is defined in the jboss-service.xml of the Core module and is saved in the database.

For instance :

<permission
 group="JBoss-forums"
 component-pattern="bb::"
 instance-pattern=".*:.*:"
 level="MODERATE"/>

It will give the moderator role on all the forums for the users in the JBoss-forums group. You can change the target category/forum in the instance pattern. Example : instance-pattern="(a|b):.*:" will specify all the forums in the category a or b.

Obviously Nukes lacks a security rule editor, because you have to modify the security attribute through the JMX-console.

julien