Permissions, Groups and Roles

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pvaibhav

I looked at the permissions model in WIKI. What is not clear is how Groups and Roles come in the picture.

My Idea of permission was very simple - There are set of users and there are set of permissions. Any subset of permissions can be applied to any user or set of users. Every permission has a predefined behavior - or every permission has set of associated allowed actions.

I think Alfresco has the same concept. But Can any body explain how Groups and Roles intermigle with Permissions in Alfresco?

Vaibhav

andy

Hi

You can assign permissions to groups and roles in exactly the same way as permissions can be assigned to users. The permisson applies to the group. The membership of groups and roles is now encapsulated in the AuthenticationService (to get the static groups and roles of the current authenticated user). If group membership changes this may affect a users permissions.

I have a habbit of calling username, groups and role authorities in the acegi way.

Actions on services may be configured to require certain permissions, role membership etc.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Andy