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icon8.gif   Top Groups, Show Top Groups, password file and Protect Selection page have nasty interaction, posted by Chris Green on Fri Aug 5 02:27:15 2005 
    icon2.gif   Re: Top Groups, Show Top Groups, password file and Protect Selection page have nasty interaction, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 5 12:06:47 2005 
       icon7.gif   Re: Top Groups, Show Top Groups, password file and Protect Selection page have nasty interaction, posted by Chris Green on Fri Aug 5 16:15:04 2005 
          icon2.gif   Re: Top Groups, Show Top Groups, password file and Protect Selection page have nasty interaction, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 5 16:51:02 2005 
Message ID: 1388     Entry time: Fri Aug 5 16:15:04 2005     In reply to: 1385     Reply to this: 1392
Icon: Smile  Author: Chris Green  Author Email: greenc@fnal.gov 
Category: Bug report  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.6.0-CVS 
Subject: Re: Top Groups, Show Top Groups, password file and Protect Selection page have nasty interaction 

Stefan Ritt wrote:
One note I would like to make however: "Top groups" were invented for having completely separate logbook groups. Before the invention of top groups, one had to run several instances of elogd for different departments for example, where one department should not see the other department's logbooks. But having many departments means having to maintain many elogd daemons. This led to the invention of top groups, so one daemon can serve several independent groups, each having their own [global] section, with probably their own administrator.

In your case however, it would be more applicable not to use top groups, but use nested groups. Like
Group MiniBooNE = Analysis, Miscellaneous
Group Analysis = Charged Current Pi Plus, Neutral Current Coherent Pions
Group Miscellaneous = demo

I presume this is more what you want, and you can avoid some problems which arise from top groups.


The quick attempt I just made to use this doesn't do what I want, which is to require password protection for the Analysis logbook selection page. If you think that *is* possible and I just didn't configure it properly, I'd appreciate pointers. In the meantime though, your bug fixes appear to have solved my top group / password problem and I think I'll proceed with that for now.

Thanks again,
Chris.
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