Priority of permissions

Help / Discuss
#1

Hello there

Still playing with permissions a bit. There I noticed, that the “Page” permission does somehow overrule the “Page&Children” deny permission.

If I understood it right, an explicit deny will deny in any case. It appears that this does not apply if you set Allow on the “Page” permission and deny on the “Page&Children” permission for the same group. The other way around (deny on “Page” and allow on “Page&Children” works as expected).

Did I miss something or is this a bug?

Version 11.3 …

BTW: a feature to display the current permissions applied to the current page would be very handy (but probably difficult to implement)

Thank you

#2

Indeed we’ve been discussing this for a long time but it’s not super easy to do and we’ve been pushing it FTM. See https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/RightsUI9x

There’s also a jira issue for this (you can vote for it! ;)): http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13403

#3

Nice! Voted for it :wink:

#4

Created

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16777

==>

It’s not the same level. What is called “Page & Children” is one level above “Page” (that’s why it apply to children too).

Technically:

"Page & Children": My/Page
    "Page": My/Page/WebHome
    "Child": My/Page/Child