Needs help with the creation of new roles and users

[Pontus Strand <Po...@oss.teleca.se>]

Hi,

I'm rather new to world of Jakarta Slide and as such I could use some
assistance.

What I want to do is to first create a new role and then add a new user to
that role. I also want to be able to give the role access to one or more
collections (primarily in the "/files" collection). If this could be
achieved with the DAV Explorer it would be great, but I haven't be able to
so far.

I have been able to create both roles and users, as well as assigning users
to role(s), with DAV Explorer. However, all attempts to assign the new role
to, say, the "/files" collection fails miserably as I can't login (I get a
"403 Access to the requested resource has been denied").

When creating a new user and assigning it to one of the user role (following
the HOWTO located here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/howto-create-users.html), everything works
like a charm.

I'm a bit confused as to where I should do my changes, and what changes I
should do. Should I work with the domain.xml file at all or should I only
use other tools (such as DAV Explorer or a tool of my own making)? When
looking at the metadata stored in a MySQL database I saw a field called
"succession" in the "permissions" table, has this value any impact on the
way permissions are evaluated? I.e. can a permission that should give
role/user more access be "blocked" by another permission?

The setup at moment is as follows: I'm using Slide 2.1b2 bundled with Tomcat
5.0.28, a standard Windows file system to store files in and a MySQL 4.1.7
database to store metadata in. I'm also using DAV Explorer 0.90.

Best regards,
Pontus Strand

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Re: Needs help with the creation of new roles and users

[James Mason <ma...@apache.org>]

After you create the users/roles, you'll need to modify the ACL of the
collection you want to give access to. I don't think DAVExplorer can
modify ACLs, so I'd suggest you use the Slide command-line client.

http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/webdav-client.html should get you
started. The command you'll need are "open" and "grant".

-James

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:01 +0100, Pontus Strand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm rather new to world of Jakarta Slide and as such I could use some
> assistance.
> 
> What I want to do is to first create a new role and then add a new user to
> that role. I also want to be able to give the role access to one or more
> collections (primarily in the "/files" collection). If this could be
> achieved with the DAV Explorer it would be great, but I haven't be able to
> so far.
> 
> I have been able to create both roles and users, as well as assigning users
> to role(s), with DAV Explorer. However, all attempts to assign the new role
> to, say, the "/files" collection fails miserably as I can't login (I get a
> "403 Access to the requested resource has been denied").
> 
> When creating a new user and assigning it to one of the user role (following
> the HOWTO located here:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/howto-create-users.html), everything works
> like a charm.
> 
> I'm a bit confused as to where I should do my changes, and what changes I
> should do. Should I work with the domain.xml file at all or should I only
> use other tools (such as DAV Explorer or a tool of my own making)? When
> looking at the metadata stored in a MySQL database I saw a field called
> "succession" in the "permissions" table, has this value any impact on the
> way permissions are evaluated? I.e. can a permission that should give
> role/user more access be "blocked" by another permission?
> 
> The setup at moment is as follows: I'm using Slide 2.1b2 bundled with Tomcat
> 5.0.28, a standard Windows file system to store files in and a MySQL 4.1.7
> database to store metadata in. I'm also using DAV Explorer 0.90.
> 
> Best regards,
> Pontus Strand
> 
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