Re: [opencms-dev] Problem with group-inheritance

[manfred.schenk at zerobyte.de]

Andre Bernardini <mail at andre-bernardini.de> schrieb am 04.11.2004,
11:43:25:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using opencms 5.0.1 and encountering the following problem:
> 
> when I create group Y and select group X as parent group, the result seems to be
> the exact opposite of what I wanted:
> 
> If I assign a user to group X, he won't appear in group Y (as expected). On the
> other hand - if I assign him to group Y (the "child group") he indirectly
> becomes member of group X.
> 
> So ... is this a known bug (already searched the 2004-mailinglist-archive but
> didn't find anything significant) and does anyone have any suggestions how to
> solve that problem?

There is no bug - the groups behave in the right way.

You can see a user as a special kind of group with only one person in
it.

Now you can read the term "group A is parent of groups B" as:
B is a subset of A.


Manfred
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