[pkg-horde] Bug#464058: turba access checking issue

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Feb 11 21:47:25 UTC 2008


Hi Peter - any feedback on the latest patch? Or Gregory, any feedback  
from the debian team? I'd like to get this resolved soon.

Quoting Peter Paul Elfferich <pp at dia.uva.nl>:

> It's not so much the list's owner as the entry's owner, which could be
> another shared address book, so that would turn into:
> "This list contains X1 contacts from address book 'Y1' that you do not have
> permission to view. Contact the owner (Z1) if you have questions." And so
> forth for X2, Y2 and Z2 etc. Where X is the number of contacts, Y is the
> name of the source address book and Z1 is the owner of the address book or
> share.
>
> Peter Paul
>
> PS: I did another test with an interesting outcome by the way: if the
> address added to a list is from a shared address book that another user can
> not see/read, then it isn't shown, but it's not removed. So the silent
> removal only seems to take place with addresses from private address books.
>
> On Feb 7, 2008 6:38 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Peter Paul Elfferich <pp at dia.uva.nl>:
>>
>> > That would perhaps be a simpler fix, but I think it will be confusing to
>> > users.
>> > If you really want to allow this cross-address-book adding then I'd
>> suggest
>> > showing warning messages detailing why a number of contacts could not be
>> > displayed.
>>
>> That seems possible - "This list contains X contacts that you do not
>> have permission to view. Contact the list's owner if you have
>> questions." or something like that?
>>
>> -chuck
>>
>



-chuck





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