topic Permissions/role confusion in Alfresco Archive

Permissions/role confusion

cybertoast — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:24:22 GMT

I have a role/permission problem that I don't understand. Here's what I did:* Create site (foo) in /share as a regular userA* Log in to /alfresco as admin and set the site's permissions to have EVERYONE have Site Collaborator rights (so EVERYONE now has Read, Site Consumer and Site Collaborator)* Lo

Re: Permissions/role confusion

cybertoast — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:56:41 GMT

What's even more confusing to me is that if I set the user's role in /share to SiteConsumer, but in /alfresco leave EVERYONE as SiteCollaborator, I get SiteCollaborator level rights on content on the site in /share. I say this because I can create files and folders in the site, even though my role on the site is SiteConsumer:


url: /alfresco/service/api/sites/eqthsbc/memberships/userB
role: SiteConsumer
authority: 
  userName: userB
  lastName: ""
  url: /alfresco/service/api/people/userB
  fullName: userB
  firstName: userB
  authorityType: USER
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So I guess the roles set in /alfresco ALWAYS override the values set in /share? I have not tried this with a higher-role set in /share and a lower in /alfresco to see if the user's rights are limited by what's in /alfresco.

Could someone shed some light on what I'm misunderstanding please?

Re: Permissions/role confusion

mrogers — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:25:53 GMT

What version of Alfresco are you using?

Is your site PUBLIC, PRIVATE or MODERATED?

Re: Permissions/role confusion

cybertoast — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:35 GMT

Alfresco version 3.2r2. The site is PUBLIC:


shortName: foo
url: /alfresco/service/api/sites/foo
isPublic: true
description: ""
sitePreset: site-dashboard
visibility: PUBLIC
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Re: Permissions/role confusion

dacedos — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:43:55 GMT

Hi cybertoast,

How do you set permissions to nodes?

I am dealing with authorityservices, permissionservices and noderefs but I cannot set the permissions!

For example, If I have a user called "User1" and file/folder with the noderef "nodeRef" how could I set contributor permissions for that user in that node??

thanks!!