[Cosmo-dev] Re: securing access to items in multiple collections

Randy Letness randy at osafoundation.org
Thu Sep 27 17:49:40 PDT 2007


Morgen Sagen wrote:
> Since the user has read-write access to the item, shouldn't they be
> able to modify it and put it in different collections?  I thought the
> problem was when they subscribed with a read-only ticket and then
> copied an item from that collection to another they *do* have write
> access to.
>   

Right, but the problem now is that because the read-write ticket isn't 
included in morse-code publish/update requests, cosmo doesn't know if 
the user really has write access to the item.  It is technically 
possible to turn a read-only ticket into a read-write ticket.

-Randy


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