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diptinarang
diptinarang
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November 8, 2016

How to include a user with permissions in a content package?

  • November 8, 2016
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The use case is to include a custom user as part of a content package. The user abc ('/home/users/system/abc/‘) which is under a group ‘everyone’  has all permissions only on ‘/content/projects’ node. I don’t want to include '/content/projects/rep:policy’ as part of the package as there might be some other permissions already present on the ‘projects’ node. Is there any other way to include this user in the content package?

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    kautuk_sahni
    Community Manager
    kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    November 8, 2016

    Check ACL packager.

    Link:- https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/acl-packager.html

    // 

    Purpose
    Frequently, access control entries need to be copied from one environment to another without copying the actual content itself, just the access control entries. This user interface allows you to define and build packages containing access control entries for particular paths and/or particular principals.

    Reference articles:-

    Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__ufln-i_packed_theusergr.html

    Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__0mo3-we_have_a_groupname.html

    Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__ajav-ive_searchedhighan.html

    I hope this would help you.

    ~kautuk

    Kautuk Sahni
    Nupur_Jain
    Adobe Employee
    Nupur_JainAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    November 21, 2016

    I tried it out , it does grab all the user permissions but I have a specific use case : If the user has permissions in /content i.e there is node "allow2" of jcr:primaryType "rep:GrantAce" , so using ACS ACL packager will build the /content/rep:policy node in the content package.

    What if the new instance in which I want to install my package already has a "allow2" node under /content/rep:policy (containing permissions for some other user ), in this use case I would get an error "Error: org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.packaging.PackageException: javax.jcr.nodetype.ConstraintViolationException: Item is protected."
     while installing the package.

    Is there any other way to grab permissions so that it does not collide with other permission when I install my package

    kautuk_sahni
    Community Manager
    kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 12, 2017

    nupurjain​ did you get the solution for this one?

    ~kautuk

    Kautuk Sahni
    Jitendra_S_Toma
    Jitendra_S_Toma
    Level 10
    November 8, 2016

    HI,

    @Kutuk pointed out. ACL tool to grab all the permissions of al the users. That is the recommended approach.

    Regards,

    Jitendra

    kautuk_sahni
    Community Manager
    kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 3, 2017

    MC Stuff​ any help here?

    ~kautuk

    Kautuk Sahni
    MaxBarrass
    MaxBarrass
    Level 3
    July 3, 2017

    Try adding a user to you package and ensure you have .content.xml and _rep_policy.xml with

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <jcr:root xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:rep="internal"
       jcr:primaryType="rep:ACL">
      <allow
       jcr:primaryType="rep:GrantACE"
       rep:principalName="everyone"
       rep:privileges="{Name}[jcr:all]"/>
    </jcr:root>

      MC_Stuff
      MC_Stuff
      Level 10
      July 4, 2017

      Hi Dipti,

      While installing the package use merge option .

      Thanks,

        kautuk_sahni
        Community Manager
        kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        July 4, 2017

        diptinarang nupurjain Check the comments from MC Stuff.

        // While installing use merge option.

        ~kautuk

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