/*
- * Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
*
* Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
*/
/** \file user_list.h exported functions from user_list.c */
/**
- * permission flags that can be set individually for any server command
+ * Flags for server commands and user permissions.
*
- * - AFS_READ: read-only command of the audio file selector
- * - AFS_WRITE: command changes state of the audio file selector
- * - VSS_READ: command reads information about the current audio stream
- * - VSS_WRITE: command changes the current audio stream
+ * For each command, zero or more of these flags are ored to define the command
+ * permissions. A user is allowed to run the command if and only if all command
+ * permission flags are set for the user in the server.users config file which
+ * is read at server startup.
*/
-enum {AFS_READ = 1, AFS_WRITE = 2, VSS_READ = 4, VSS_WRITE = 8};
+enum server_command_permissions {
+ NO_PERMISSION_REQUIRED = 0, /** None of the below. */
+ AFS_READ = 1, /** Read-only operation on the AFS database. */
+ AFS_WRITE = 2, /** Read-write operation on the AFS database. */
+ VSS_READ = 4, /** Read-only operation on the virtual streaming system. */
+ VSS_WRITE = 8 /** Read-write operation on the virtual streaming system. */
+};
/**
* data needed to authenticate the user
*/
struct user {
- /** the position of this user in the list of users */
+ /** The position of this user in the list of users. */
struct list_head node;
- /** the username */
+ /** The username. */
char *name;
- /** the public RSA key */
- RSA *rsa;
- /** the privileges that this user has */
+ /** The public key. */
+ struct asymmetric_key *pubkey;
+ /** The privileges of this user. */
unsigned int perms;
};