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In your example of policies, it says Managers can view documents in their department. Does it mean that the system will already have predefined permissions, roles and resource types?

imran.razak
– imran.razak

2017-05-11 12:43:12 +00:00
Commented May 11, 2017 at 12:43
No. It means that you would have something (LDAP? A table?) that links a user (Alice) to her roles (manager...). You would then have a table that would contain document metadata (that is typically a table within the app you are protecting). The permission itself (view, edit, delete) is stored in the policy.

David Brossard
– David Brossard

2017-05-11 15:23:23 +00:00
Commented May 11, 2017 at 15:23

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