Bug #49068 What are "Administrative Roles"?
Submitted: 24 Nov 2009 20:35 Modified: 18 Dec 2009 14:45
Reporter: Todd Farmer (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2 r4753 OS:Windows (XP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[24 Nov 2009 20:35] Todd Farmer 
Description:
WB appears to be attempting to introduce the concept of "roles" in dealing with privileges, but there is no documentation regarding what these "roles" actually translates into in terms of grants on the server.

How to repeat:
View http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-manage-server-accounts-tab.html and Server Access Management tab in product.

Suggested fix:
Define the actual GRANTs somewhere.
[24 Nov 2009 20:46] Peter Laursen 
IMHO implementing 'roles' client side is hopeless. The server should have 'roles'.
[18 Dec 2009 14:45] Tony Bedford 
The main documentation has been updated with a section on roles.