Akil, Thanx for raising this issue. We also had the same problem in my company. We modified the security impl and added a method to check permissions for a collection of documents instead of single document only.
-tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Akil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 6:27 AM > To: Slide Users List > Subject: Security and Scalability in Slide > > > The framework for security is very flexible but it seems that > administrators > can administer themselves into > positions where the server will slow down to a crawl due to the security > settings. > > Are there standard scalable implementations to the ACL based security > framework being used? I have been trying to find one and having > difficulty. > > Consider the following situation: > > Our slide server has a large number of users and documents in multiple > levels of the hierarchy. > > A user on our slide server tries to access a list of documents ( > e.g. using > search ). Before showing the user the list, the server > needs to verify accessibility for every document on that list for > that user. > This is not feasible if the list is large. > > In general, the approach of checking accessibility per document is not > scalable if the user is interested in a collection of documents. > > Is there a known solution to this problem? I am currently trying to work > this problem. I have the freedom to modify the data structures used by the > data store if need be. > > Any thoughts on this subject are welcome. > Thanks > Akil > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
