Controlling site creation permissions

By default, any authenticated user can create sites in Share. The creator of the new site is given the Site Manager role and they control who has access to the site and in what role. This topic gives on how to control site creation permissions in SkyVault.

The beans that enforce security to the repository services based on the currently authenticated user are defined in the public-services-security-context.xml file.

Copy the following code and add it to the <extension>/custom-model-context.xml file.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>
<beans>
    <bean id="SiteService_security" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.MethodSecurityInterceptor">
        <property name="authenticationManager"><ref bean="authenticationManager"/></property>
        <property name="accessDecisionManager"><ref bean="accessDecisionManager"/></property>
        <property name="afterInvocationManager"><ref bean="afterInvocationManager"/></property>
        <property name="objectDefinitionSource">
            <value>
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.cleanSitePermissions=ACL_NODE.0.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.createContainer=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.createSite=ACL_METHOD.GROUP_SITE_CREATORS
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.deleteSite=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.findSites=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getContainer=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listContainers=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getMembersRole=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getMembersRoleInfo=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.resolveSite=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSite=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSiteShortName=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSiteGroup=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSiteRoleGroup=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSiteRoles=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.getSiteRoot=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.hasContainer=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.hasCreateSitePermissions=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.hasSite=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.isMember=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listMembers=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listMembersInfo=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listMembersPaged=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listSiteMemberships=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listSites=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.listSitesPaged=ACL_ALLOW,AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.removeMembership=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.canAddMember=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.setMembership=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.updateSite=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.countAuthoritiesWithRole=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.isSiteAdmin=ACL_ALLOW
               org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.*=ACL_DENY
            </value>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

Modify the inserted SiteService_security bean to match your requirements. For example:
To give permission to only Administrators to create site, change:
```
org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.createSite=ACL_ALLOW
```
to
```
org.alfresco.service.cmr.site.SiteService.createSite=ACL_METHOD.ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR
```
where, ACL_ALLOW executes a method that allows access to all users and ACL_METHOD.ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR executes a method that allows access to users who are members of the administrator group.
Save the file.
Restart SkyVault.

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