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.