Re: Priority of Privileges

Hi,

Have you tried moving Editors group under the Members group? May help,
not sure. The privileges have always confused me :o)

Robert.

On 17/04/07, jalal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to understand privileges and I think I'm misunderstanding
> something. Here's the situation (simplified).
>
> I have different users on the site: guest, reguser, member and admin
>
> now, I want to have some editors, so I create an editor role and assign that
> to select members. So the editors belong to two roles: Member and Editor.
>
> to help them, i create a small menu block with editing links: EditMenu
>
> when I create the block it is visible to everybody, so I create a privilege:
> DenyEditMenu and assign that to Everybody. Now the menu block is hidden,
> this is good.
>
> next I want the Editors to see the block, so I create a privilege:
> ViewEditMenu and apply that to the Editor role
>
> but, the block doesn't show up, because the DenyEditMenu is applied to
> Members and the ViewEditMenu is applied to Editors and an Editor is a member
> of both Editor and Member. And the Deny privilege trumps the View privilege.
>
> Is there anyway to tell Xaraya to allow the Editor privilege to trump the
> Member privileges?
>
> TIA
> jalal
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