Thilina, Are you asking about J1 or J2?
For J2, roles and groups are symmetric and can be used interchangably as the portal designer/implementer wishes. Your example is typical. J2 stores role and group information in the DB, not PSML files. In addition to the admin portlets, one can also define them directly in the database, (see the populate-*.sql files in the disribution). One can also define a custom J2 security valve and install it in the J2 pipeline architecture to interface with external principal and authentication/authorization systems. HTH, Randy -----Original Message----- From: Thilina Anjitha To: JetSpeed Sent: 1/25/05 12:15 AM Subject: Difference between Role and the group -Newbie questin Hi, I saw that, using the admin console, we can add users, roles and groups. 1) What is the difference between the Role and the Group? (I really appreciate if you provide some sample data for roles and groups.) 2)Say that I added the following using the admin console.(logging as admin user) users - tomi and mike roles - Developer, Manager tomi is a Developer mike is a Manager Developer has only view permissions Manager has all the permissions. So then, are these entries are permanently saved into the system? 3) Instead of creating the above users, roles etc using the admin user, is it possible to create them by changing the corresponding psml files manually. Thank you. Thilina. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
