topic Re: a way to forbid acces to a space to a particular user? in Alfresco Archive

a way to forbid acces to a space to a particular user?

seraphon — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:13:26 GMT

HiI know that some would answer my question by saying that I just have to go to more action, manage space users and then untick inherited permission and add the users allowed in this space.But thats not what I want.What if, with a continuously evolving user database, you just want to forbid access t

Re: a way to forbid acces to a space to a particular user?

andy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:13:12 GMT

Hi

This is not possible - currently any allow - allows.

You would be better off assigning permissions to a group and managing the membership of this group.

Andy

Re: a way to forbid acces to a space to a particular user?

seraphon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:20:02 GMT

Hi

So must I conclude that there is no intention to include this in Alfresco?
I think it is a needed feature.
When there are lots of groups and users, it is much easier and faster to forbid access to a few specific users than creating groups specific to spaces and managing users for this group, a management that could involve a hundred users (or more depending on our compqnies growth).

And having to manage a group of users for each space is really not appealing. Of course I m talking here about a worst case scenario, where there are dozens (let us be crazy, hundreds!) of spaces with none having the same group of user with the same permission.

If I were the one to manage the groups in that case, I wouldnt be happy.

Regards
Seraphon

Re: a way to forbid acces to a space to a particular user?

andy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:40:32 GMT

Hi

At some point the config will alllow you to choose from "any deny denies" and "any allow allows". Both are valid use cases. We are more along the lines of the unix file system model and not the MS one for this behaviour.

Andy