are there user groups in JBoss?

[amouradi]

Hi,
I am trying to evaluate JBoss portal and probably am missing something.
Can one combine users in groups, in other portals I have seen, users can be combined into groups and then roles are assigned to groups rather than to users directly. Which helps with managing larger groups of users.
Also, is there a way to add custom permissions? and what is relationship between the permissions and roles?

Thanks a lot!
Ann

[bvogt]

Hi Ann,

at least in 2.6.3 there is no support for it in the portal core.
The last thing I recognized is the discussion of this topic by the portal team:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=112843

Nevertheless, because we needed that too prior to that discussion, I implemented at least a minimal API (just for our needs, i.e. database is supported only) based on portal 2.4.1:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1293

Last december we have managed to upgrade to portal 2.6.3, in which the iidentity design has been majorly changed.
If there is a demand for that, I can provide the necessary changes in jira too.