topic Understanding default Permissions and Delete Permisions in Alfresco Archive

Understanding default Permissions and Delete Permisions

peterzmlim — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:01:27 GMT

Hi, I've been reading up on the Alfresco's default permission modeling from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_and_Authentication#Enforcement_of_security and http://www.alfresco.com/help/webclient/concepts/cuh-user-roles-permissions.html .I don't see the Delete permission group being declared un

Re: Understanding default Permissions and Delete Permisions

peterzmlim — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:09:58 GMT

As most of the created users will either have the Collaborator or Consumer Role, will setting a new owner (ie switching the owner to a Coordinator) on the nodes be able to remove the delete permission from the Collaborators?

Re: Understanding default Permissions and Delete Permisions

wgonzalez — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:08:28 GMT

The ROLE_OWNER implicitly defines delete permissions.
Although it is not recommended that you change default groups or roles, you can create a new one without the "DELETE"
Please read this post: http://www.anotherstrangerme.com/deny-delete-permission-to-space-owner-in-alfresco/

As that article describes, this can also be accomplished by an Aspect.