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Bart van der Schans commented on JCR-2910:
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I agree with Felix. Many attempts have been made to get rid of or restrict the
"root" concept in unix/linux like rbsac, selinux grsecurity or even with sudo
(iirc the root user in netbsd is even just another regular user by default) A
user should just have the privileges/permissions to do something or not.
Also the User.isAdmin() method is not really clear in it's meaning. Are you the
user "admin"? Or belong to a group of admins? Or do you have some kind of admin
privileges?
Imo you should never check whether a user is "admin", just check if the user
has the appropriate privileges.
> Please add JackrabbitSession.isAdmin()
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> Key: JCR-2910
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2910
> Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Thomas Mueller
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently finding out if the session user is an admin requires:
> JackrabbitSession js = (JackrabbitSession) session;
> User user = ((User) js.getUserManager().getAuthorizable(session.getUserID()));
> boolean isAdmin = user.isAdmin();
> Or: ((SessionImpl) session).isAdmin(). However casting to an implementation
> is problematic for several reasons.
> I think it would make sense to add isAdmin() to the JackrabbitSession
> interface, so the code above would be:
> ((JackrabbitSession) session).isAdmin()
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