[GeoNetwork-users] How to setup user belonging to multiple groups but different profiles

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Hi,

I'm struggling to understand how the user group permissions work on
geonetwork 2.6.4.

In our organization were are trying to setup permissions similar to the
following.

user1 user administrator for group1 and registered users for group2
user2 content reviewer for group1 and registered users for group2
user3 editor for group1
user4 editor for group1

So basically we have
A regional administrator (user1) who will administer regional content
(group1) but is also allow to view content belonging to other regions
(group2,group3,...)
A regional content reviewer (user2) who will be able to manage regional
content (group1) but is also allow to view content belonging to other
regions (group2,group3,...)
And we have a regional editors (user3, user4....) that can only edit
regional data (group1)

Another region may have something like the following

user5 user administrator for group2 and registered users for group1
user6 content reviewer for group2 and registered users for group1
user7 editor for group2
user8 editor for group2

Based on geonetwork 2.6.4 it seems the only way to achieve this is to do the
following.

user1_adm user administrator for group1
user1_viewer registered users for group2
user2_manager content reviewer for group1
user2_viewer registered users for group2
user3 editor for group1
user4 editor for group1

user5_adm user administrator for group2
user5_viewer registered users for group1
user6_manager content reviewer for group2
user6_viewer registered users for group1
user7 editor for group2
user8 editor for group2

It seems I need to create a duplicate users accounts to assign them to a
different profile for a specific group.

Am I understanding this correctly?

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After looking at the user management screens and the database tables it seems
like a solution could be to move the "profile" field from the "users" table
to the "usergroups" table. This way, a user could be assigned a different
profile for each group they belong to. The Administrator profile would be
an exception to this rule as they are not associated to groups. Though, I
expect that this would probably be a big change and probably not feasible at
this time.

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