topic Re: Checking existence of a given group in Alfresco Archive

Checking existence of a given group

jeperon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:50:11 GMT

Hi,I'm currently using Alfresco 2.0, and I need to set permission on a given Node.I want to check that the permission I'm giving are given to a group that currently exists. In order to check that existence I'm using the AuthorityService:authorityService.authorityExists("GROUP_toto");‍‍This works if

Re: Checking existence of a given group

kevinr — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:16:32 GMT

The default permissions configuration specifies that method as ADMIN only in the AuthorityService_security bean section in public-services-security-context.xml:


org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.AuthorityService.authorityExists=ACL_METHOD.ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR
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This can be overriden like other config in the usual way, so you could change it to ACL_ALLOW. Personally I think that should be the default as there is no danger in knowing a group exists - you can't do anything with it, there is already a JIRA item open to review the default permissions: http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1334

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Checking existence of a given group

jeperon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:01:42 GMT

OK that's it ! Thanks a bunch !!

I was also mislead by the doc telling that every "read" operation can be performed by any users …

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Julien Eperon, Optaros

Re: Checking existence of a given group

andy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:10:36 GMT

Hi

Can you point me to the misleading doc and I will fix it up.

Andy