[Building Sakai] Setting a resource's permissions

[Brian Baillargeon]

Yes, it seems this is the way to go. I'm a little concerned about 
security by obscurity, but I'll discuss it with my team

On 12-09-05 07:24 AM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg wrote:
> There is the hide option for any folder or file in resources.
>
> Maybe instead try  to change permissions, you can use "public void
> setAvailability(boolean hidden, Time releaseDate, Time retractDate)" from
> the ContentHostingService to edit a collection and hide a folder to the
> users without the permission of "view hidden resources". Students usually
> have this permission disabled by default and instructors have it enabled.
>
> Saludos!
>
>
> Diego del Blanco Orobitg
> Director de operaciones
> diego.delblanco at samoo.es
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] En nombre de Brian
> Baillargeon
> Enviado el: martes, 04 de septiembre de 2012 20:33
> Para: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Asunto: [Building Sakai] Setting a resource's permissions
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a fork of the certification tool. I want the tool to save
> PDFs somewhere in the site's resources rather than root/certification/...
> However, I don't want students to have any permissions to view/modify the
> template PDFs, so I want to disable all of the resource permissions (such as
> Create resources, Read resources...) on the related directories for roles
> who don't have certificate.admin permissions.
>
> So for example, if we had
> root/certification/templates/<siteId>/<certificateDefinitionId>/myPdf.pdf
> In my implementation it should be somewhere like
> <siteCollection>/certification/templates/<certificateDefinitionId>/myPdf.pdf
> and the <siteCollection>/certification/templates/ folder's permissions would
> all be enabled for Instructor and disabled for Student
>
> I've been poking around ContentHostingService, and I see ways to check for
> permissions but nothing to set them. I also poked around in
> AuthzGroupService, but didn't see how to use it with ContentResources.
> Does anybody know a way to set permissions on a ContentCollection?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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