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Back to EpisodesShould you manage roles and permissions with a UI?
Episode 86
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
Just about every application needs the concept of roles and permissions. Often, there's a desire to allow non-developers to manage roles and permissions in the application interface, but is that a good idea?
- (00:00) - Roles and permissions landscape
- (01:45) - A UI for managing permissions?
- (04:14) - Rolling out new permissions via migrations
- (06:45) - What about managing roles in a UI?
- (09:00) - Covering permissions in tests
- (10:30) - Maybe a read only UI?
- (10:55) - Silly bit
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