topic Re: Exclusive permissions? in Alfresco Archive

Exclusive permissions?

jooray — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:15:58 GMT

Hello, is it possible to use some kind of "exclusive" permissions, i.e. specifically denying someone (or some group) access to space? For example I have a department group and I want everyone but one person from that group being able to access that space. I could create another group of people tha

Re: Exclusive permissions?

lotharm — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:46:40 GMT

Hi,

yes, Alfresco permissions are additive. There is a deny flag buried in the database, but it is not accessible through the UI, nor it is clear how it should work. Perhaps the Alfresco
developers could explain it?

One way to work around this is removing the inheritance flag and set explicit permissions.

Regards,
lothar

Re: Exclusive permissions?

andy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:43:44 GMT

Hi

There is deny.

By default we have "any allow" allows.
So deny is really aprtial block of inheritance.

Andy deny denies is in the code .
It has not been tested as much and I do not recall if there is simple config to switch modes.

The UI does not expose deny. The Java API does.

Andy