'Coordinator'/assigning user permissions?

[jonathanscorner]

I want to be able to make a space, as administrator, disable the space's inheritance of permissions from its parent, give Coordinator or other high-level permissions to a non-privileged user, and then log out and in as the non-privileged user and be able to grant permissions to the space and/or its contents to another user.

So far, the "invite" button appears to the right when I go to "Manage Space Users" as the administrator, but not as the user with a Coordinator role, even if I take ownership of the object.

Am I going about this the right way?

If it is the intended functionality for me to be able to invite users as the administrator but not as a non-administrative Coordinator after taking ownership, is there another way that I should be doing this? If I am supposed to be able to use the "invite" function, should I file a bug (is there a known workaround)?

Thank you,

[steve]

Hi,

What version of Alfresco are you using?

I didn't think that what you were seeing was right, so I tried to replicate it.

As Admin, I created a space 'spaceA'
I removed the 'inherit space permissions', and assigned a user 'userA' coordinater permissions to the space.
I then logged in as userA, and navigated to the space spaceA.
In the 'manage space users' screen, I was able to invite users without any problems.

Have you done any customisations, or made any other changes that might affect this for you?

Steve

[jonathanscorner]

Hi,

What version of Alfresco are you using?

I didn't think that what you were seeing was right, so I tried to replicate it.

As Admin, I created a space 'spaceA'
I removed the 'inherit space permissions', and assigned a user 'userA' coordinater permissions to the space.
I then logged in as userA, and navigated to the space spaceA.
In the 'manage space users' screen, I was able to invite users without any problems.

Have you done any customisations, or made any other changes that might affect this for you?

Steve

I'm using Alfresco + WCM 2.1 under XP. I went to try to either confirm it was working, or get a screenshot of a Coordinator not being able to invite users, and after a scheduled reboot, am getting a Tomcat 404 page on 127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/ . This continues if I run alf_stop.bat and then alf_start.bat.

What should I know to get Alfresco (rather than a 404 page)? I believe the 404 page is being displayed by the Tomcat instance shipped with Alfresco.

[mikeh]

Hi

It's likely an error has stopped the Alfresco WAR deploying correctly. Are there any errors in the log file you can post?

It's worth checking the basics, e.g. database has started, nothing else listening on port 8080, etc.

Thanks,
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

Hi

It's likely an error has stopped the Alfresco WAR deploying correctly. Are there any errors in the log file you can post?

It's worth checking the basics, e.g. database has started, nothing else listening on port 8080, etc.

Thanks,
Mike

The log file, for the most recent startup, does not seem to look bad. I can run a freshly unpacked version and everything starts without trouble. The only tomcat/logs file with output from that attempt reads (catalina.2007-11-26.log):

Nov 26, 2007 1:17:48 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2408 ms
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.23
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:50 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:50 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:50 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Nov 26, 2007 1:17:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 2264 ms‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The installation I am working on doesn't start, but a fresh install does. Are there other diagnostics I can give?

[jonathanscorner]

(The logs attached raise at least one red flag: startup in under three seconds. I don't remember Alfresco ever working after starting up that quickly.)

[mikeh]

Hi

No - that does seem too quick. It would also suggest something failing pretty early on during startup.

There should be an alfresco.log file (in the same folder as alf_start.bat if that matches your configuration) which will contain more information.

Thanks,
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

From Cygwin:

$ find . -name \*.log
./tomcat/logs/admin.2007-11-14.log
./tomcat/logs/admin.2007-11-19.log
./tomcat/logs/admin.2007-11-26.log
./tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-11-14.log
./tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-11-19.log
./tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-11-26.log
./tomcat/logs/host-manager.2007-11-14.log
./tomcat/logs/host-manager.2007-11-19.log
./tomcat/logs/host-manager.2007-11-26.log
./tomcat/logs/localhost.2007-11-14.log
./tomcat/logs/localhost.2007-11-19.log
./tomcat/logs/localhost.2007-11-26.log
./tomcat/logs/manager.2007-11-14.log
./tomcat/logs/manager.2007-11-19.log
./tomcat/logs/manager.2007-11-26.log‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

There is no alfresco.log file in the Alfresco root, where alf_start.bat is, and the find suggests that all the files named *.log were in tomcat/logs/.

[mikeh]

Hi

There'll be an alfresco.log somewhere - you may need to widen the search location.

Thanks
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

There'll be an alfresco.log somewhere - you may need to widen the search location.

…in my home directory. (I'd been assuming it would be within the Alfresco directory heirarchy.)

Thanks…