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| author | Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com> | 2011-02-22 16:24:41 -0500 |
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| committer | Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com> | 2011-02-23 11:57:10 -0500 |
| commit | b5e43bb866392a70d775f31994f7e856972956b2 (patch) | |
| tree | c6cf3ed4f6d0644deb0802d4d421814ad13ce89a /ipalib/plugins/permission.py | |
| parent | 388c9a1705bd3e6744ca996559cb4372c532056e (diff) | |
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Make permission and privilege help text clearer
ticket 996
Diffstat (limited to 'ipalib/plugins/permission.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | ipalib/plugins/permission.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ipalib/plugins/permission.py b/ipalib/plugins/permission.py index 784b4dae5..db063334f 100644 --- a/ipalib/plugins/permission.py +++ b/ipalib/plugins/permission.py @@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ """ Permissions -A permission enables fine-grained delegation of permissions. Access Control -Rules, or instructions (ACIs), grant permission to permissions to perform -given tasks such as adding a user, modifying a group, etc. +A permission enables fine-grained delegation of rights. A permission is +a human-readable form of a 389-ds Access Control Rule, or instruction (ACI). +A permission grants the right to perform a specific task such as adding a +user, modifying a group, etc. -A permission may not be members of other permissions. +A permission may not contain other permissions. * A permissions grants access to read, write, add or delete. * A privilege combines similar permissions (for example all the permissions |