Dummy Permission

This module allows you to create permissions that to absolutely nothing by default. Useful for:

• Views Permission-Based access control
• As one of many conditions (using user_access()) in Views PHP access control
• In Panels custom PHP selection rules and Access Checks

Installation

Easy Way

drush dl dummy_permissions && drush en dummy_permissions

Hard Way

If you aren't lucky enough to have drush, just download and install this module like any other module.

Use

To create some Dummy Permissions, first log in as a user who has the "administer dummy permissions" role. Then head to the People > Permissions > Dummy Permissions > Add New Dummy Permission. The text boxes here are:

• Name: This is the name of your permission that shows up on the permissions page.
• Description: This is the text that appears under the name on the permissions page.
• Machine name: This is the what you pass as an argument to user_access() It should basically be the name with everything lowercased and punctuation removed
• Trusted Users Only Whether or not to show the "This permission has security implications" message.
• Trusted Users Only Message The message to display instead of the normal "this permission has security implications". To be used sparingly.