topic Re: All users have 'Admin Console' in Alfresco Archive

All users have 'Admin Console'

bdgregg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:34:50 GMT

We've just installed Alfresco Comunity Edition 3.2 and all seems to be working well, and if the system performs well we may move to the supported version.We are very concerned about security within the application. We've configured our authentication to use alfrescoNTLM and passthru with no ldap sy

Re: All users have 'Admin Console'

mikeh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:28:08 GMT

For your "admin" issue - do users seem to have admin access when using the Explorer (JSF) client at /alfresco ? It sounds like something to do with your underlying configuration rather than an Share UI bug, as the users do actually seem able to perform admin-only operations. Maybe post your config (redact any IPs, server names, etc.)

As to your second question: yes, the permissions are enforced on the Repository, so this includes all input paths.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: All users have 'Admin Console'

bdgregg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:53:17 GMT

Mike,

Seems all users can post in any "private" site.

Here's the alfresco-global.properties…

###############################
## Common Alfresco Properties #
###############################

#
# Sample custom content and index data location
#————-
dir.root=./alf_data

#
# Sample database connection properties
#————-
db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=dontbelieveit
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

#
# External locations
#————-
ooo.exe=/usr/bin/soffice
#img.root=./ImageMagick
swf.exe=/usr/local/bin/pdf2swf
img.root=/usr/local
img.exe=/usr/local/bin/convert

#
# MySQL connection
#————-
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

#
# Index Recovery Mode
#————-
#index.recovery.mode=Auto
index.recovery.mode=FULL

#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
mail.host=smtp.server.univ.edu
mail.port=25
#mail.username=anonymous
#mail.password=
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.server.univ.edu
mail.smtp.auth=false

#
# Alfresco Email Service and Email Server
#————-

# Enable/Disable the inbound email service.  The service could be used by processes other than
# the Email Server (e.g. direct RMI access) so this flag is independent of the Email Service.
#————-
#email.inbound.enabled=true

# Email Server properties 
#————-
#email.server.enabled=true
#email.server.port=25
#email.server.domain=alfresco.com
#email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous

# A comma separated list of email REGEX patterns of allowed senders.
# If there are any values in the list then all sender email addresses
# must match.  For example:
#   .*\@alfresco\.com, .*\@alfresco\.org
# Allow anyone:
#————-
#email.server.allowed.senders=.*

#
# The default authentication chain
# To configure external authentication subsystems see:
# http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems
#————-
#authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm
authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,passthru1:passthru
ntlm.authentication.sso.enabled=false
alfresco.authentication.authenticateCIFS=false
passthru.authentication.authenticateCIFS=true

#
# IMAP
#————-
imap.server.enabled=true
imap.server.port=143
imap.server.host=alfresco.server.univ.edu

#Sharepoint Protocol Support
vti.server.port=7070
vti.alfresco.depoloyment.context=/alfresco
vti.alfresco.alfresoHostWithPort=http://alfresco.server.univ.edu:8080
vti.share.shareHostWithPort=http://alfresco.server.univ.edu:8080
#

#CIFS Server
cifs.enabled=true
cifs.serverName=${localname}
cifs.ulrfile.prefix=http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.WINS.primary=10.0.185.225
cifs.WINS.secondary=10.0.57.225
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Thanks for looking at this. MUCH appreciated.

Re: All users have 'Admin Console'

mikeh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:14:21 GMT

I'll ask our resident subsystem expert to have a quick look. In the meantime, you could try specifically setting passthru.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames to a specific account as described here.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: All users have 'Admin Console'

bdgregg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:23:53 GMT

Mike,

Never mind - I found my error.
When setting up the passthru-authentication-context.properties file, I included the test account in the defaultAdministratorUserNames field (and forgot I did so).

The "Admin Console" link went away when I had someone else try to login.

Sorry about this.

Thanks for making me double and tripple check my config. At least I know it wasn't a bug.

Thanks again.