mandog wrote:

You might run into problems if somebody is in multiple groups with a permission granted.

That's a good point. In this case, for the application I'm going to port it to, I don't mean "groups" in the Unix sense. I mean "employee type". Users of the system will be a particular type of employee, so it's a one-to-many relationship, rather than the many-to-many scenario you can have on Unix. If I needed to go that route, I would probably do a bitwise OR on the group permissions and then add the user permission.

    perl -e 'print ((1 | 1) - 1)'

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That will print 0 (zero). However, at that point, it's probably better to move that process into a stored procedure, rather than calculate it in Perl.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(3): Application Access Control by Ovid
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