Talking Drupal #332 - Permissions Management

Today we are talking about Permission Management with Benji Fisher.

www.talkingDrupal.com/332

Topics

• John - Squid Games – Midcamp hat
• Abby - Turkish Market and lentil soup
• Benji - Fruition dedicating more time for open source
• Nic - Config for Drupal 9.3
• Overview of Permissions
• Familiar examples
• Biggest problem
  • UX nightmare
  • Phantom permissions
• 9.3 significant improvements
• Passion project
• Process to get this in
• Reviewer role
• Next phases
• How to help
• Drupal puzzles

Resources

• Reviewing 9.3 config update
• Bundle Classes
  • Typed Entities
• Config mappings are sorted the way they are defined in their schema
• @phenaproxima Comment on Permission table size
• Weekly Usability Meeting
  • #ux channel in Drupal slack
• Drupal core meeting calendar
• Each content type has a manage permissions tab - will be in 9.4.0
  • Add a “Manage permissions” tab for each bundle that has associated permissions
  • Let modules opt in to the bundle-specific permissions form (RTBC)

Guests

Benji Fisher - @benji17fisher

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

Flood Control Flood Control provides an interface for hidden flood control variables (e.g. login attempt limiters) and makes it possible for site administrators to remove IP addresses and user ID’s from the flood table.