Role Documentation for Continuum 1.2.3

[dbruley]

We're in the process of moving from Continuum 1.0.3 to 1.2.3 and I'm wondering if there is any documentation for the various roles provided in 1.2.3 such as info about each role, how they relate (noticed some roles listed parent roles), and role management (does a user added to a specific role also need to be added to any parent roles?), etc.  

Granted, I'll figure a lot of it out once I play around a bit through trial and error, but if there is any good documentation, I'd like to review it.

I could not find anything under the admin or user guides on the Continuum site nor did a search of the list archives or Google return much.  Apologize if I somehow overlooked the obvious.

We're using LDAP for user authentication if that matters.

Thanks in advance for your help and patience with a newbie!

[dbruley]

Hello,

Thought I would follow-up on this older post to see if anyone might still be able to assist.  Thought my origional subject heading specifying 1.2.3 may have reduced responses.  Any documentation on roles even if it's in 1.3.x would be appreciated.

Dug through the source a little and looks like Continuum is using Redback for Role Management, so I read some of the Redback documentation.  Also experimented more in Continuum with the different roles, so I think I have a good enough idea to move forward.

Just always interested in making sure I'm using the features correctly.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

dbruley wrote:

We're in the process of moving from Continuum 1.0.3 to 1.2.3 and I'm wondering if there is any documentation for the various roles provided in 1.2.3 such as info about each role, how they relate (noticed some roles listed parent roles), and role management (does a user added to a specific role also need to be added to any parent roles?), etc.  

Granted, I'll figure a lot of it out once I play around a bit through trial and error, but if there is any good documentation, I'd like to review it.

I could not find anything under the admin or user guides on the Continuum site nor did a search of the list archives or Google return much.  Apologize if I somehow overlooked the obvious.

We're using LDAP for user authentication if that matters.

Thanks in advance for your help and patience with a newbie!

[Deng Ching-2]

Hi Dave,

I'm not sure if you've already read this document already, but the Redback
docs for role management can be found here:

http://redback.codehaus.org/rbac/role-management.html

As for Continuum's documentation of its roles, I don't think there is one.
Your best bet is probably to look at the Redback descriptor itself, which is
located at the continuum-security module:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/continuum/tags/continuum-1.2.3/continuum-security/src/main/resources/META-INF/redback/

HTH,
Deng

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:26 AM, dbruley <
david.bruley@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Thought I would follow-up on this older post to see if anyone might still
> be
> able to assist.  Thought my origional subject heading specifying 1.2.3 may
> have reduced responses.  Any documentation on roles even if it's in 1.3.x
> would be appreciated.
>
> Dug through the source a little and looks like Continuum is using Redback
> for Role Management, so I read some of the Redback documentation.  Also
> experimented more in Continuum with the different roles, so I think I have
> a
> good enough idea to move forward.
>
> Just always interested in making sure I'm using the features correctly.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dave
>
>
> dbruley wrote:
> >
> > We're in the process of moving from Continuum 1.0.3 to 1.2.3 and I'm
> > wondering if there is any documentation for the various roles provided in
> > 1.2.3 such as info about each role, how they relate (noticed some roles
> > listed parent roles), and role management (does a user added to a
> specific
> > role also need to be added to any parent roles?), etc.
> >
> > Granted, I'll figure a lot of it out once I play around a bit through
> > trial and error, but if there is any good documentation, I'd like to
> > review it.
> >
> > I could not find anything under the admin or user guides on the Continuum
> > site nor did a search of the list archives or Google return much.
> > Apologize if I somehow overlooked the obvious.
> >
> > We're using LDAP for user authentication if that matters.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help and patience with a newbie!
> >
> >
>
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