We have an ASP.NET web application that has been around for over 4 years now. The web app uses ASP.NET role management with a custom role provider. The custom role provider connects to a database which includes tables for Users, User Groups, and Roles, with a table linking roles to user groups.
Over the years the application has grown in functionality and roles have been added. We now have around 30 roles and there is a complaint that it's not clear (due to lack of documentation, bad naming or whatever) what functionality a particular role gives a user.
Is there guidance on how to make the relationship between roles and functionality more transparent? One suggestion has been to list out the application functionality in another table and create a relationship between Role and Functionality. The application security would then be programmed against the items in the Functionality table, and the relationships between role and functionality c ...
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