[keycloak-dev] hierarchical only groups?

[Marek Posolda]

That's similar to how it worked for GateIn portal . There was only 
parent-child notion and each group could be identified easily by path 
consisting of it's simple name and parent hierarchy. For example root 
group "platform" had path "/platform" . The subgroup "finance" of root 
group "platform" had path "/platform/finance" etc.

All the roles were always assigned to user per group, so there was 
notion like: User "john" is member of role "admin" in group 
"/platform/finance" etc. Visualization was quite easy - some screenshots 
are here: 
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/GTNPORTAL39/Manage+Users+and+Groups .

I think this model was sufficient (at least for portal purposes). Can't 
any customer wanted the structure with group being child of multiple 
parent groups.

Marek


On 19/10/15 16:40, Bill Burke wrote:
> I was wondering if it would be ok to only have parent/child, tree
> structure relationship between groups.  Meaning, a group can't belong to
> multiple groups.
>
> I was just thinking about modeling a large company with groups.  How
> would you visualize the group structure within the admin console?  A
> hierarchical-only group structure would allow you to define a group with
> a simple non-unique names.  i.e. "admins", "customers".