User permission handling

Created on 27 November 2014, over 9 years ago

Updated 19 September 2023, 9 months ago

Problem/Motivation

By default in Drupal core, user permissions are not exported separately but rather are bundled with user roles; each role is exported with all the permissions it contains.

This bundling is a barrier for generating independent and interoperable features. For example, a user role 'contributor' might need permissions for various content types, each of which should be in a separate feature.

Proposed resolution

EDIT: If you are reading this and want permissions to not be stripped out. It is now a configuration setting. Features > Configure Bundles (tab) > Alter (Configure Operation) > Uncheck "Strip out user permissions." This was fixed in #2599278: Move export processing to a configurable plugin → .

Short term: on export, strip out all permissions from the user role. Done.
Longer term: work on independent export of user permissions. This likely falls into the general problem area of configuration overrides, so requires a solution for overrides. Actually supporting overrides may be out of scope for Features, but once such a solution were in place we could export in its supported format.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

📌 Task

Status

Closed: won't fix

Version

3.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇨🇦Canada nedjo

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🇺🇸United States Chris Burge
If you need permissions managed by Features, check out: https://www.drupal.org/project/features_permissions →

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