Re: Some docs help

Guyren G Howe wrote:
> 
> On Sep 12, 2005, at 2:16 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> 
> By "could be", I presume they're not used for anything right now?  Admin 
> doesn't set t

No. It just means its an optional feature. Rights level work by 
expecting the user to store and retrieve ownership and passing it to 
checkLevel() and checkRightLevel(). we just have them in some examples 
to show people how they could do it.

>>> What is the purpose of liveuser_groups.group_type?
>>>
>>
>> this is just a metadata field to help people separate "user groups"  
>> from "roles" ..
> 
> 
> I find this confusing. It seemed an attractive feature of LiveUser  that 
> roles were just groups with multiple rights attached, but that  there 
> was no need to artificially separate grouping of rights from  grouping 
> of users. Does this mean that groups of users and groups of  rights are 
> separated, and if so, how does this work? In particular,  what values 
> can this field have, and what do they mean?

like i said its just metadata you can read out and write in your 
admintool or not. it has no relevance to LiveUser internally.

regards,
Lukas