gnats/445: Problems with access levels

[franky . backeljauw]

>Number:         445
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>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       Problems with access levels
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 19 11:38:41 -0500 2002
>Originator:     Franky Backeljauw
>Release:        v4.0-beta2
>Organization:
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
>Environment:
Sun Solaris 2.8
>Description:
I have several problems with setting up the access levels.  My current settings 
are "*:listdb:" in gnatsd.host_access and "guest:guest:view:default" in 
gnatsd.user_access, with both files in etc/gnats.  However, if I do a telnet to 
gnatsd and execute the command "USER guest guest", it still says that my access 
level is "listdb".  I have put gnatsd.user_access in the com/gnatsdb/gnats-adm/ 
directory too, but that does not help either.

Second, I cannot override the default access level.  I know that setting 
"*:view:" in gnatsd.host_access sets the default access level to "view".  Now, 
suppose that in addition I want to give host "myhost" the access level "edit".  
It does not help to add "myhost:edit:" to gnatsd.host_access, because it is 
ignored.  So the only way to give "myhost" the "edit" access level, is to 
delete the line "*:view:", but then no other host than "myhost" has access to 
gnats.  Apparently, the "*:view:" line overrides every other line present.  The 
same goes for lines in the gnats.user_access file.
>How-To-Repeat:
I have used the original files, with gnats installed in ~backelj/bug_tracking.
>Fix:
Unknown
>Unformatted: