wftk core: permissions directory adaptor

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A permissions directory adaptor is responsible for interfacing with a directory system in order to determine whether a given user has permission to perform a named task (or group of tasks or whatever) on a given object.

These are the functions exposed by a permission directory adaptor (well, OK, they're not there yet):
FunctionParametersPurpose
0: init   Initialize adaptor instance
1: free   Clean up instance before shutting down
2: info   Return XML describing the adaptor
3: perm XML * action
XML * user (optional: use NULL if anonymous)
Judge permission level. Returns "ok", "no", or the name of an approval process to start.

Implementations:


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