Re: [Exist-development] Confused about permissions and defaults for XQuery files

[Dmitriy S. <sha...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Chris Tomlinson <
chr...@gm...> wrote:

> 1) So if I understand correctly then there is no longer any default
> permissions feature any where, including in the collection.xconf files for
> various collections. Is this correct? It seems contrary to the portion of
> the thread with Dmitriy so you'll appreciate my confusion.
>
> 2) What is the security issue? Incorrect admin of the DB is always an
> opportunity for problems: performance, security and so on. It seems to me
> that removing the ability to provide a default set of permissions some how -
> on a collection or on a per user basis or whatever - is a significant
> reduction in functionality in order to keep some DB admins from shooting
> themselves in the foot so to speak. This means to me that eXist is now
> enforcing a particular policy rather than providing mechanism.
>

+1 to keep this feature. What security issue? human? let move it to mars
then .... =)

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Dmitriy Shabanov