Role Editor For WPMU

Hey everyone,
interest is defnietly there and honestly I found too many disappointing answers about the WPMU issue with roles on the Web than expected.
To Andrew: It would be just fine if what you said would work out:
"The reason you don't see any plugins like that for WPMU is that each blog has it's own roles & capabilities data stored in the options table. So it's hard to control that from a central place on larger sites."
Let me know if I understood you right/wrong:
since it does not work out for me. Once I store capabilities under SiteAdmin>Options in the Backend of another Blog and then return to the Backend of the admin Blog, it changes the options also for my admin. Where exaclty do I have influence on roles and capabilities if not with a proper Plugin?

I'm desperate to find out if there is any Role Plugin working with WPMU and I'd be willing to pay for a proper Plugin, since research on other sites was always a dead end!

Cheers
Sany

I was hoping for roles like these:

Super-Administrator - all rights on all blogs (me).
*Network Administrator - Can jump between multiple blogs assigned to this user, has most privileges.
Site Administrator - Has Admin rights on only one blog.
Editor - Has writing and editing rights on only one blog.

* - I realize this role is extremely abstract and may be completely impossible with WPMU 2.9.2.

@Barry What is the best way to achieve these roles? More specifically lets focus on the Network Administrator role: how can someone have Multi-site privileges for only a handful of blogs?

I have a MU install with 1,500 blogs and over 12,000 tables. The core of this problem is that each blog has its own user capabilities stored separately, and therefore the capability manager plugin doesn't work with MU. That is what this thread is about. I was wondering if there is a plugin that replaces these tables with a predetermined universal roles and capabilities table, or if this would even be a possibility.

I'm surprised there aren't more people (or are there?) clamoring for global permissions in multi-site. I could really use Super-Editors and Super-Moderators in addition to Super-Admins. Poking around a bit in wp core it seems it would unfortunately be a fairly complex issue to resolve.

I would think it would require rewriting of the core code. As mentioned up above, each blog has it;s own settings as to who can do what. For the site_admin though, it;s a hardcoded check against is_super_admin.

Also since the check is hardcoded, you would have to determine what each level would have access to.

The code looks like fun:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.0.1/wp-includes/capabilities.php

Hiya DR,

First off, welcome to WPMU DEV!

Sorry about the delayed response here, but sometimes these older threads get overlooked.

I used to recommend this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/

However, it may need some work to function correctly with 3.0+

Might be worth giving a shot though.

Thanks!