Hi,
File acls in ManifoldCF would normally be handled by the repository
connector, during the process of indexing documents. The
corresponding Linux authority information would include what Unix
groups a user was part of. There is currently no authority connector
I am aware of that does that. You could perhaps try to write your own
- I doubt it would be very hard to write.
Karl
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:39 AM, mi...@grf.bg.ac.rs wrote:
Hello,
So I could use MCF as a servise provider for authorization. That is nice
but only if the formats agree (I'll check that).
But still there is one question left: What authorization component to use
if users and indexed files are not on the Windows servers, but on the
Ubuntu server with Unix style file rights of type rwxr--r-- ?
Also, could I use AD component for Windows not in a domain?
The format of a ManifoldCF access token is a collaboration between an
authority connector and repository connectors designed to work with
that authority connector. If you've already indexed documents using
another mechanism, you can still use ManifoldCF's authority service to
obtain access tokens for authenticated users. This service is a web
application accessible by http. You can see what it returns (after
defining an authority connection or two in the ManifoldCF UI) by
simply using curl:
curl
http://localhost:8345/mcf-authority-service/UserACLs?username=myn...@mydomain.com
... and noting what is returned. The access tokens indexed in Solr by
your crawler will have to match the access token format returned by
the authority service, or the Solr query modification components we
supply will not work.
Hope this helps,
Karl
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM, mi...@grf.bg.ac.rs wrote:
Hello,
I would like to test ManifoldCF (MCF) in order to achieve doc level
security in my SOLR search app. Actually I already developed my own
document crawler apart from the MCF framework. My test SOLR app is
located
on Ubunutu server (the indexed docs are located on that server). When I
tried to use MCF Quick Start App I didn't know what authorization
connector to use for this case (of course I would use MCF crawlers in
this
case to retrieve documents).
I need MCF only for authorization. My crawler already uses Java 7
capabilities to retrieve file ACL(Posix attributes) What classes do I
need
to use from MCF libraries to perform authorization based on Ubuntu
server
usernames?
Finally, is it possible to perform authorization against Windows
accounts
on workstations not in a domain (local users)?
Thank you,
Milos
