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Bug #5535

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system_usermanager_addprivs.php and system_groupmanager_addprivs.php perform similar functions but behave inconsistently and both in bad ways

Added by Jim Pingle over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
User Manager / Privileges
Target version:
Start date:
11/25/2015
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.3
Affected Architecture:
All

Description

Both system_usermanager_addprivs.php and system_groupmanager_addprivs.php perform similar functions but behave inconsistently and both in various bad ways

system_usermanager_addprivs.php:
  • Not sorted properly (bad)
  • Shows privilege description when clicked (good)
  • Omits already-present privileges from the list so they cannot be added twice (good)
system_groupmanager_addprivs.php:
  • Sorted properly -- alphabetically by privilege name (good)
  • Does not show privilege description when clicked (bad)
  • Pre-selects previous privileges (good -- if it was respected)
  • ...but does not care if they are deselected (bad)
  • Adds privileges to a group multiple times (bad!)

They should, ideally, use the same or very similar code -- perhaps by moving some of the logic to priv.inc so they can generate the list in the same way.

Ideally they both should behave identically:
  • Sorted properly -- alphabetically by privilege name (system_groupmanager_addprivs.php does this correctly)
  • Show privilege description under the control when clicked (system_usermanager_addprivs.php does this correctly)
  • Omit already-present privileges from the list so they cannot be added twice (system_usermanager_addprivs.php does this correctly)
  • Do not allow the same privilege to be added to a user or group multiple times (system_usermanager_addprivs.php does this correctly as a byproduct of the above behavior)

Might also be a good time to tackle #5049

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