Subject Re: [IB-Architect] System predefined roles
Author David Jencks
Hi,

Is this ACL mechanism still there? Forgive my ignorance, which
modules/files? Can we maybe reuse/resurrect this for java?

Thanks
david jencks
On 2001.04.25 10:19:36 -0400 Jim Starkey wrote:
> At 01:33 PM 4/25/01 +0200, Ivan Prenosil wrote:
> >> When IB5 was created, roles were added. Apologies if I hurt
> someone here,
> >> but I can't understand why, despite other system tables, nobody
> thought on
> >> including a rdb$system_flag field in rdb$roles.
> >
> >Probably for the same reason why rdb$generators does not have field
> rdb$owner_name :-)
> >
>
> No cigar. When I defined RDB$GENERATORS RDB$USER_NAME didn't exist.
> Security (and de facto ownership) was handled by security classes
> with access control lists (a vastly better model than grant/revoke).
>
>
>
> Jim Starkey
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