The lastest version of the code is available at the site: http://github.com/xdcpm/q-control
Development version is at: http://github.com/tekbasse/q-control
Q-Control provides a role-based access control system.
With Q-Control, users are assigned roles, roles are assigned privileges, and properties are assigned to an independent group_id.
Apps that depend on this package create tests similar to OpenACS permissions system to determine if user has read, create, write, delete, or admin rights per property (or property class) tested.
More about Role-based access control at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control
Copyright (c) 2013 Benjamin Brink po box 193, Marylhurst, OR 97036-0193 usa email: tekbasse@yahoo.com
Q-Control is open source and published under the GNU General Public License, consistent with the OpenACS system: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html A local copy is available at q-control/www/doc/LICENSE.html
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Works in context of subsite, individual package, or a set of packages.
Is layered on top of OpenACS permissions.
Users must have OpenACS read privilege to invoke additional Q-Control approvals.
Users with OpenACS Package Admin privilege have all approvals in context.
Low learning-curve compared to customizing OpenACS' group permissions of party/person/group and how permissions change based on the types of relations between groups and the types of memberships of user relations in groups as described at: http://openacs.org/doc/permissions-tediously-explained.html
See file q-control/INSTALL.TXT for directions on installing.