Do you prepare a new application (stand alone exe file) for admin or handle it in the same application by access rights?

Question

Do you prepare a new application (stand alone exe file) for admin or handle it in the same application by access rights?

Answer 1

It's always a case-by-case situation.

I doubt there's a generic response to this question.

For example:

• If there's much overlap between the admin features/data and these of the regular application, a single application with access right and dynamic/polymorphic views is probably preferable.
• If security is of utmost importance, two separate applications may make sense: users with the lesser enabled application will never get to admin features no matter how hard they try or how some bug let them.
• If there are multiple levels of access, a single application may make sense (rather than managing as many as there are levels (or possibly combinations thereof...)
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