Table of perms

[dankpepe]

Is there a way to create a table of the permissions of an entire ulx group that will update automatically?

[JamminR]

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ULib updates this UCL automatically on it's own any time a parameter changes.
Unsure what else you mean.

[dankpepe]

I have a script that changes your user group to user and gives you the permissions you had based on your rank because I made a few tables of all the permissions. Is there any way I can call a table of the  permissions a group has, to assign to an individual player without creating an entirely new which inherits from the group they were in?

[roastchicken]

I have a script that changes your user group to user and gives you the permissions you had based on your rank because I made a few tables of all the permissions. Is there any way I can call a table of the  permissions a group has, to assign to an individual player without creating an entirely new which inherits from the group they were in?

The only thing I can ask is why?

You're completely undermining the entire point of the permission system. The whole point of groups is so you don't have to assign permissions to people individually, and can instead assign them to groups.

[dankpepe]

I made an undercover addon and I want it to be able to give permissions to players when they use it. I know the perms are saved in data/ulib/groups.txt, but I was wondering if I could somehow give that table of permissions to a player. How I have it now is I have a table of perms for a specific server, but this won't be helpful on any other server.

[JamminR]

As stated in previously linked post, all live information is stored in ULib.ucl, including players with special access, groups, the commands those players and groups has, and tons of other stuff. Groups.txt and users.txt are actually files from that table.

[dankpepe]

So would there be a way to either include the file or read it? Does file.read work similarly to include so I could use the information from that file?

[roastchicken]

So would there be a way to either include the file or read it? Does file.read work similarly to include so I could use the information from that file?

Are you reading JamminR's posts?

From the topic he linked:

All information about groups is stored in ULib.ucl.groups.

Code: Lua

1. print(ULib.ucl.groups["admin"].inherit_from)

ULib.ucl.groups is exactly what you want, it is a table of all the groups' permissions.

[dankpepe]

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How would I allow permissions from all the groups below them? So far I have

Code: Lua

1. ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[rank].allow)
2. ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[ULib.ucl.groups[rank].inherit_from].allow)
3.  

but that only gives permissions from the same rank and the rank below it.

[roastchicken]

How would I allow permissions from all the groups below them? So far I have

Code: Lua

1. ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[rank].allow)
2. ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[ULib.ucl.groups[rank].inherit_from].allow)
3.  

but that only gives permissions from the same rank and the rank below it.

You'll want to use a loop, storing the previous rank's group table in a variable outside the loop. Just keep retrieving the group that it inherits from and setting your variable to said parent group each time. Stop when you reach a rank that doesn't have a parent (inherit_from is nil or a blank string)

[dankpepe]

Okay, what I did is I used this code:

Code: Lua

1.  repeat
2.         ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[rank].allow,false)
3.         rank = ULib.ucl.groups[rank].inherit_from
4. until rank == "user"
5.  

I want all the permissions granted to the player to be revoked from special access afterwards. For that, I have:

Code: Lua

1. repeat
2.         ULib.ucl.userAllow(id, ULib.ucl.groups[revoke_rank].allow,true)
3.         revoke_rank = ULib.ucl.groups[revoke_rank].inherit_from
4. until rank == "user"
5.  

where both rank and revoke_rank are the rank of the user before they get set to user. However, the second part doesn't actually revoke the perms. Do you know how I could do this?

[roastchicken]

-code-

Can you show us the entire file? Right now it isn't clear what happens to the rank and revoke_rank variables before and after your code snippets.

My guess is that you're trying to set revoke_rank in the first function and use it in the second function, and that's messing up somehow. I'll be able to better diagnose the issue once you post the full code.

[dankpepe]

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[roastchicken]

Okay, so here you're having a problem with scope. In your code you have a variable set, revoke_rank. This variable is only set if the command is not revoking, so attempting to access it in the 'else' part of the loop is not going to work. If you were hoping that the variable would persist after the function has been called, that is not the case. You are going to need to find some other way than variables to store the users starting rank.