Hi Hank, "Our project involves a database that has a private secure user space for each user. Our database is built on Lucene and indexes every object in the database. Each user presumably has some number of SharePoint sites that they have access to. We want to index each sharepoint object (file or sharepoint page) as we find it, for each user. The user then ends up with an index of just the objects that they have perrmissions for. But to do that we need to, for each user crawl all of the sharepoint sites that they have access to. Permissions to each sharepoint site are managed by K erberos."
This is not the typical ManifoldCF model. In the typical case, there is ONE lucene search engine (not N), and any searches that take place apply security restrictions internally based on the user's security information, as obtained from the ManifoldCF authority service, which is in turn querying SharePoint. You can read more about the standard authorization setup here: https://github.com/DaddyWri/manifoldcfinaction/tree/master/pdfs/MCFiA%20CH%2004.pdf Karl On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM, hank williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I am embarking on an effort for which ManifoldCF may be an appropriate > tool. I am a total noob, having just discovered this project and have a few > questions that I am hoping someone can answer so that I can begin to gain > some confidence about the way things work. Basically I am trying to make > sure I understand, at a top level, how ManifoldCF works. > > Our project involves a database that has a private secure user space for > each user. Our database is built on Lucene and indexes every object in the > database. Each user presumably has some number of SharePoint sites that > they have access to. We want to index each sharepoint object (file or > sharepoint page) as we find it, for each user. The user then ends up with > an index of just the objects that they have perrmissions for. But to do > that we need to, for each user crawl all of the sharepoint sites that they > have access to. Permissions to each sharepoint site are managed by K > erberos. > > So the questions are: > > a. Can I, with ManifoldCF take list of sharepoint sites and a list of > users and relevant Kerberos appropriate authentication tokens or keys (just > learning about Kerberos), and get back a list of indexable objects/URIs > (HTML, .docx, pptx, etc.)? > > b. Is this the right way to think about it? > > c. If so, is there any example code or documentation that would explain > how I do this? > > d. Does manifoldCF provide any information to help indicate whether the > given object has changed, or is that something we need to figure out by > manually comparing the old and new documents in our code? >
