topic Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions? in Alfresco Archive

Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions?

lista — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:44:14 GMT

I'd like to avoid running web script as admin user or something along those lines, because of another reasons, not really important ATM. So, the script will be executed by the currently logged in user.Still, if that user has write permissions on a node (through Coordinator role), it still does not h

Re: Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions?

abarisone — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:56:11 GMT

Hi,
first of all you can find here http://www.alfresco.com/help/webclient/concepts/cuh-user-roles-permissions.html the matrix that defines Alfresco permission model.
Besides about setting permissions, Administrator role has all privileges everywhere and users have all rights in their own spaces.
So this means that to change permissions you have to be Admin or have/take ownership of that particular node.

Regards,
Andrea

Re: Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions?

lista — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:17:00 GMT

Hi,

thank you for your answer.
I realize that, but I can't give Administrator role to users. Taking/having ownership could do the trick, but I'd like to avoid that extra step.
I suppose custom role is always an option.

Re: Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions?

lista — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:02:21 GMT

I lied, Coordinator role is just as powerful as Administrator role, minus the full access. Meaning, if you have a Coordinator role on a node, you can set it's permissions.