Hello Toby,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Tobias Bocanegra
<[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Ard Schrijvers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> From the spec jsr-283 I cannot get my head around one thing:
>>
>> * What is the expected behaviour of modifying child nodes of shared
>> nodes, when you are not allowed to read the child nodes of one of the
>> shared nodes (because of some access path constraint for example).
> i'm not sure how exactly it is implemented currently, but for resource
> based access control, i think that only the primary ancestors inherit
> the ACLs.
> so the ACL of a shared set is the one of the primary node. for user
> centric access control, it's of course path based.

The ambiguity with the ACL based on the primary ancestor, is that
through the shared set, you could change a descendant shared node in a
complete different part of the tree, which you are not allowed to
read.. OTOH, perhaps it makes perfect sense: I assume it works the
same for symlinks

Thx Toby

Regards Ard

>
> regards, toby
>

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