Securing your spaces
Space can be secured by assigning a role to a specific user (or group) on that space.
Role refers to a set of permissions that can be applied to a folder.
Permissions are identified by a string. A particular permission, for example ReadChildren, may be granted or denied to an authority; a user, group, administrator, owner, and so on. The children of a node will inherit permissions from their parents. So by default, the files in a folder will inherit their permissions from the folder. Permissions set on a node take precedence over permissions set on the parent nodes. The inheritance of permissions may be turned off for any node. A permission group is a convenient grouping of permissions such as Read made up of ReadProperties and ReadChildren.
User roles on a space
Alfresco uses roles to determine what a user can and cannot do in a space. These roles are associated with permissions. The following table lists the allowed permissions for each role on a given space. User (or...
