Hello DBManners

I am trying to add an authority type so I can select what to show depending on the type of user you are...

if ($per_NewAuthType) {&html_record_form_ext (%rec)

I have added the new type in the db.cgi file so I can select it when I create the user in the User Management window.

In sub admin_display I basically added the new type everywhere I saw "per_admin"

print PASS "$in{'new_username'}:$encrypted:$in{'per_view'}:$in{'per_add '}:$in{'per_del'}:$in{'per_mod'}:$in{'per_admin'}:$in{'per_N ewAuthType'}\n";

NewAuthType <input type=checkbox name="per_NewAuthType" value="1" |; ($data[7] and $perm .= "CHECKED"); $perm .= qq|>|;

and

NewAuthType <input type=checkbox name="per_NewAuthType" value="1" |; ($auth_default_perm[5] and $perm .= "CHECKED"); $perm .= qq|>|;


Now, when I add a new user I can click on the NewAuthType option. If I do an "Inquire" on the user I see that the NewAuthType option is saved (clicked) but when I use the "per_NewAuthType" condition in the code, it does not seem to work.

Any ideas? Is there maybe an easier way of accomplishing the same?

Thanks

Jaime Ortega

You'll have to edit auth.pl and make sure that auth_check_passwd returns the authority type as well. Then in db.cgi change:

($status, $uid, $per_view, $per_add, $per_del, $per_mod, $per_admin)
= &auth_check_password; # Authenticate User, get permissions and userid.

to:

($status, $uid, $per_view, $per_add, $per_del, $per_mod, $per_admin, $per_authtype)
= &auth_check_password; # Authenticate User, get permissions and userid.

Now you can use it in the html.pl.

Hope this helps!

Alex

Hi Alex,

Thanks for answering...

I come from a 4 day vacation and puff... Senior Alex has answered my question (which is pretty amazing since after reading my question again I realized that it wasn´t all that clear to begin with)

I looked into the auth.pl file and I added the new authtype everywhere I saw admin. This seemed to do the trick. Thanks for pointing out the auth.pl file to me.


Cheers

-JO