There is a proposal for this in the cvs tree. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anbunidhi Mahalingam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ACL's > > > ACL's in Jetspeed : > > I just tried to control the portlet through Jetspeed (like show / hide > particular portlet in the portal) based on the ACL stuff. > But I got failed > because of the following strategies. If I am wrong in doings, please > correct me and help me to resolve this issue.(atleast controlling one > portlet) using ACL. > > As Mr. Kevin Burton is pointing out that Jetspeed can access > and use ACL's > which is in Turbine to control Jetspeed portal. But, as of my > knowledge, the > ACL's which we are using in Turbine is not sufficient for > controlling our > portlet. Turbine ACL's just control entire screen/portal not > our individual > portlet. It is not possibe to control access to a portlet or > part of it > through Turbine. If we have ACL's in jetspeed we can control > our each and > every portlet with in the screen/portal. > > For example, if we want to use Jetspeed in an intranet stuff > like, think > about a portlet which can show the salary of each employee. > In this case we > must have the ability to restrict the usage to people of the > HR department. > On the other hand it is not necessary to enable this > restriction mechanism > on the user level. In general we would restrict the access to > a group of > users (for example the members of the HR department). These > users will be > members of a specific role. As a result we should enable > access to portlet > functionality depending on their roles. Username may still > need to be used > in the access/denial specfication. Otherwise, how do you deny > access to one > user of the HR group, but allow access to all others? We > cannot control this > through Turbine ACL's. > > So we need seperate ACL's which should be in a position to control our > individual portlet within portal/screen. > > With Regards, > > Anbunidhi Mahalingam. > > > > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> > To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> > Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses with Trend Micro's Interscan VirusWall. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
