Overview of permissions and roles
The authorization of content in Alfresco is done by assigning users or groups (set of users) specific roles on folders or content. Roles are groups of permissions. There are a set of default roles available in Alfresco which we will learn about later in this chapter. There is also the flexibility to customize and define your new roles.
Users or groups can have specific permissions on spaces. Subspaces can inherit parent space permission. The Alfresco system is flexible enough that the subspaces and content can have specific permissions set without inheriting any of the parent space permissions.
Permissions
Access rights on any content or space can be defined in Alfresco by permission. Out of the box, there are multiple permissions. Any content in Alfresco is a node connected to other nodes using associations. By default, a space in Alfresco is a node (parent) that allows you to create instances of child associations for other nodes (children).
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