topic Re: Access Denied when creating content from a scheduled task in Alfresco Archive

Access Denied when creating content from a scheduled task

mark_smithson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:59:45 GMT

We have a scheduled task which imports news from an xml feed into a WCM sandbox.This works fine on a windows Alfresco instance, but throws an Access Denied error when on our test server (linux).org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.AccessDeniedException: Access Denied. You do not have the appropri

Re: Access Denied when creating content from a scheduled task

gavinc — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:38:06 GMT

I can't explain why this would work on a Windows instance and not a linux instance, but either way the error is a permission denied error from the Alfresco repository.

The addAspect call requires "WriteProperties" permission which the Contributor role does not have, they can only add new items. Therefore the user performing the import of the news feed will need a higher privileged role i.e. Content Publisher or Manager.

Hope that helps.

Re: Access Denied when creating content from a scheduled task

mark_smithson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:43:44 GMT

Thanks - that has done the trick.

I have checked on the windows install and the user has ContentContributor permissions, but works fine. I have also checked using the node browser to see if they had any other permissions but they do not.

I guess this may be a bug. Is there anywhere else, I can check their permissions?

Mark