Re: [Exist-development] ANT tasks to change/set permissions?

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Andrzej,

>>>> I don't think there are "direct" security management tasks but you can always run an XQuery script
>>>> with an ant task that changes the permissions and groups of any collections and resources.
>>>
>>> That's a bit awkward.  I think I'll write some ANT tasks to do this directly.
>
> I checked in the code to Trunk yesterday.
>
> Still have to update the documentation of the ANT task through.  But in a nutshell, you can now
> specify permissions="rwxr--r--" for the Create and Store ANT tasks for collections/resources
> respectively.

Thank you so much!  I just tested store and create using the
permissions attribute, and it worked perfectly.

I would be happy to add documentation to the ant-tasks.xml file to
include this new "permissions" attribute for the "store" and "create"
tasks.  Just let me know.

I can't see any other tasks that need this "permissions" attribute, can you?

Also, I noticed one other area in the ant tasks documentation that I
assume needs to be updated (no pun intended):

The chmod task (http://exist-db.org/exist/ant-tasks.xml#d14366e1667)
continues to refer to "update" permissions instead of "execute"
permissions.

We should make sure that both the updated ant tasks and the updated
documentation is committed to stable/exist-2.0.x.

Again, many thanks,
Joe