Stan
At 12:46 07/08/2003 +0300, Mikko H�m�l�inen wrote:
Stuart,
I've never even tried to use those webapps ;-) .. My solution is to enter the user-data to the DB manually, since I have yet no idea if we're going to use an existing database for authenticating users. This is possible because the adding of single user directly to the db is relatively easy and doesn't (in my experience) require restarting of neither the Slide or Tomcat. My problems startew when I realized that I'll need to create groups dynamically as well and I can't add them to the Domain.xml. One possibility could be to put the group information directly to the slide's database, but I have no idea which tables to modify and how and how does the Slide react to this..
I've seen some implementations where there are group information added to the Tomcats JDBC user db, but none of them was for Slide.
I think that the easiest way could be to use the Tomcat's roles, I have read that they behave like groups and one could set permissons to a role too.. Maybe this is the only way to add groups dynamically, since I havent seen anybody using any other way.
It is a shame that a software this usefull and working this well isn't documented any better.. It took me weeks to learn how to configure these programs to suit my needs and from time to time I still find some configuration examples which aren't explained anywhere..
Cheers
Mikko H�m�l�inen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart MacPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Slide Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: RE: Creating groups with JDBC
Hi Mikko
Sorry I don't have a solution for you... I have been trying to do similar things... Are you now able to create users in JDBCRealm using the Slide-Admin web-app? At the moment I can only create a user if I actually go into the database and insert data into 'user' and 'user-roles' manually.
If you have any tips that would be great, it seems to be quite quiet in here!
Many thanks Stuart
-----Original Message----- From: Mikko H�m�l�inen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2003 08:26 To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Creating groups with JDBC
Hi I use the Tomcat/Slide for managing user permissions and files on a project-management site. The users can have different permissions on their own home directory and different ones for every project goup they are members of.
I managed to create a system where I can dynamically create user without the need of restarting Tomcat every time a new user is created. I've done this by configuring the Tomcat to use JDBC store as a user DB instead of the tomcat-users.xml.
The next problem is that I must group users for setting ACL-permissions for the whole group. I have no idea how to do this with JDBC store. With the Domain.xml the procedure is simple with <objectnode classname="org.apache.slide.structure.GroupNode" uri="/users/grpXXX"> (and the example Domain.xml makes it even more simple), but I haven't been able to find any information on how to do this with JDBC.. Should I add some group-tables to the Tomcat's authentication DB or what.. Any ideas/links/help appreciated.
I'd rather not use the Tomcat's roles for grouping users, since I have even less idea what they are than I have on this JDBC store thing ;-)
Mikko H�m�l�inen
Espoon-Vantaan teknillinen ammattikorkeakoulu - EVTEK
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