topic Lock out site creation in Alfresco Archive

Lock out site creation

jriker1 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:55:20 GMT

I have sucked into Alfresco 70k users and seems every single one of them have the ability to create their own sites. This is a bad thing as we want the IT group to manage site creation. Is there a way to limit who can create their own sites? If so how?Thanks.JR

Re: Lock out site creation

mikeh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:14:57 GMT

To easiest (although not prettiest) solution is to modify create-site.post.json.js in the Share webapp. You can either check some hard-coded uesrlist there, or call the repo for group membership, etc.

This will solve the immediate problem; the downside being users will still be able to go through the motions of creating sites.

Mike

Re: Lock out site creation

jriker1 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:22:49 GMT

Thanks for the information. Wow, so there is no security settings in the system for this huh? I've heard of Open but this is crazy if that's the case. Isn't Alfresco used heavily by corporations? Hard to believe companies let their users go wild with site creations.

JR

Re: Lock out site creation

mikeh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:54:42 GMT

It "the SharePoint way" and what people seem to expect. Our Community Share site has something like 20k users and 2k sites without any serious issues.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Lock out site creation

jriker1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:47 GMT

It's not about issues. For my company it's about the ability to monitor and accountability. Even SharePoint people can be restricted from creating their own physical sites and has serious security around it to protect things.

JR