Re: More Questions

[Falko Braeutigam <falko@smb-tec.com>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Graham wrote:
> I have been searching through the source-code and the API. In order to write an
> admin tool.
> I have the following suggestions.
> 
> 1)There is no method which returns a list of the objects currently in the
> database.
>     I cannot use objectsForClass to do this, as this method has not yet been
> implemented.
>     I suggested that somebody experienced in Ozone internals implements this
> method.
>     At present, neither user nor admin can be presented with a list of objects
> either to edit
>     or control the locking of an individual object.
> 
> 2) The publicly available user-login methods do not seem to contain any secure
> user-authentication.
>      This is a very important feature to have.
> 
> 3) The methods responsible for control locking of objects seem to be hidden fairly
> deep within the
>      DB, thus making it hard for an admin tool to enforce it's own policy.

Thanks Graham. I don't have the time to look into this in the near future. If
all agree that an admin-tool, an admin-API, or any of the mentioned features
should be supported, then I need help with it.


Falko
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