User account with guest only role?

omegerard — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:57:38 GMT

Hi,ObjectiveWe want to use Alfresco to distribute the project deliverables (reports, discussion notes, working docs) to our customers. The customer are not entitled to submit documents to the store (at least not for now - security issues).ProblemAn account in Alfresco comes with a home space where t

Re: User account with guest only role?

kevinr — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:15:39 GMT

It is not a bug, as Alfresco has the concept of "ownership" as part of the permissions and security framework. If you are the Owner of a folder/document, then it overrides any specific permissions applied for that item. So if you remove any other permissions for a user who is the owner (which is the case for the homespace or any documents created by the user) then it won't stop the Owner from having full access to the item.

A user with the appropriate permissions can "Take Ownership" of a document through the details page, so an Admin can take control of a document and will become the Owner for it. However we have not yet exposed Take Ownership for space - which you would need to stop the user from still having rights in the space.

There is a way around this for now, if you set the "test01" user homespace to be a space that was created by Admin (e.g. which the test01 does not own) and then delete the other homespace you created for them, then they will no longer have any spaces that they own, and will not be able to create/edit docs etc. unless you specifically give them rights to the space you have now set.

We are adding proper Guest access to the system for a release early next year.

Hope this is useful,

Kevin

Re: User account with guest only role?

omegerard — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:44:16 GMT

Hope this is useful

Yes it was.

Thanks again

Ludo

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