[jira] [Commented] (SLING-8757) Add option to set/edit access control policies at user homes

["Varun Nagpal (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Varun Nagpal commented on SLING-8757:
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[~bdelacretaz] Is there any ETA for a fix for this issue? Our project is dependent on its use.

Thanks.

> Add option to set/edit access control policies at user homes
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SLING-8757
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-8757
>             Project: Sling
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Repoinit
>            Reporter: Angela Schreiber
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: Repoinit JCR 1.1.18, Repoinit Parser 1.3.4
>
>
> [~rombert], while looking into moving all service user creation and permission setup from content packages to repo init, i noticed that there is one special case that doesn't seem to be covered by repo init but possible with Jackrabbit content packages: creating/editing access control policies at a user home. the path of those is an implementation detail and cannot be 'guessed'.
> based on my previous work on the repo-init grammar, i could envision the following main options to include this functionality.
> # explicitly extend the 'path-token' which is currently defined to be {{(PATH_STRING> | t = <PATH_REPOSITORY>)}} to something like {{(PATH_STRING> | t = <PATH_REPOSITORY> | <USER_ID>)}}.
> # similar to the first one: but don't touch the grammar just extend the jcr-implementation: if 'path' is a relative path and is not _repository_, treat it as userId and try to obtain a path from the corresponding user object.
> # completely separate it from the 'pathList' and don't allow a combination of absolute paths, repository-marker and userIds, explicitly include the notion that the edited policy is not bound to a regular path but to a user home.... instead of {{on /abspath, repository}} it then would e.g. say {{on user id1, id2}}
> without having looked into it in great detail and given the fact that there are already so many different ways to edit access control content with repo-init, the first option would feel the most natural to me. 
> wdyt? i could try to come up with a patch/tests/docu, but i would love to avoid investing a lot of time and then have to throw it away or redo it all over again.



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