"Unified permissions" mode for multiple WP installs sharing users/usermeta

[markjaquith]

It would be nice if there were a way for "slave" WP installs using the user/usermeta tables from a "master" WP install to use the master's roles/levels instead of having to set its own. Some people don't mind if roles are global across all blogs, and it would certainly make the feature easier to implement.

We should be able to do this by having the slave installs define something like: define('WP_PERMISSIONS_PREFIX', 'wp_master_'); in wp-config.php

[ryan]

Simple enough. +1

[hovenko]

This just seems as a hack to cover up another hack. A far better solution would be to create new tables for capabilities/roles to fix the design problem with WordPressMU.

-1

[westi]

Replying to hovenko:

This just seems as a hack to cover up another hack. A far better solution would be to create new tables for capabilities/roles to fix the design problem with WordPressMU.

-1

I don't see this as a hack at all. I don't really see what the design problems are?

1. We have a set of users/roles/capabilities that apply to a single blog.
2. You can tell another blog in the same database to share the user, roles and capabilites storage locations.
3. You can give users different roles per blog.

The one thing that is missing is what this ticket describes - making all blogs sharing one set of users/roles/capabilities use the same role/capabilities settings for each user on every blog.

+1

[JeremyVisser]

Possibility to use separate databases too? (Pretty please?)

[DD32]

Closing as duplicate of #3444