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Checking access rights when presenting Link Collection

Per Nergård

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I'm using a Link Collection property and have made a usercontrol that adds custom rendering of the links.

One thing I wan't to do is display a "Secure file icon" if a document resides in a folder that "Everyone" doesn't have read access to.

I tried doing this with

UnifiedPathInfo pathInfo = new UnifiedPathInfo(path);
AccessControlList acl = pathInfo.Access;
return acl.QueryDistinctAccess(AccessLevel.Read);

But it didn'w work. How can I accomplish this?

Per N

#26384

Dec 03, 2008 11:21

Per Nergård

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as input to the above code I set the path variable to linkitem.href;

#26385

Dec 03, 2008 11:33

Kjetil Simensen

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dont know if this works but try:

return pathInfo.Access.Exists("Everyone")

-Kjetil Simensen

#26386

Dec 03, 2008 11:36

Per Nergård

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It didn't work.

I tried the below code. If i try to get a file in a folder where everyone has no access I get an exception. That works for a anonymous user. But as soon as I log in I dont get the exception.

I want to always display the icon if the group Everyone has no access.

//try
//{
// UnifiedFile file = HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider.GetFile(path) as UnifiedFile;

// AccessLevel l = file.QueryAccess();

//}

//catch (UnauthorizedAccessException ex)
//{

// return false;

//}

#26395

Dec 03, 2008 17:20

Anders Hattestad

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Its the Directory in the filesystem that has access right.

In CMS 5 if you want to check if all users have acces to a file you can use this code

file.Parent.ACL.QueryDistinctAccess(PrincipalInfo.AnonymousPrincipal, AccessLevel.Read)

#26396

Dec 03, 2008 21:28

Per Nergård

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Thank you for the answer Anders I figured it out last night. It's also possible to do the below to check the the directotry directly without trying to access the file.

UnifiedDirectory dir = HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider.GetDirectory(path) as UnifiedDirectory.

dir.ACL.QueryDistinctAccess(PrincipalInfo.AnonymousPrincipal,AccessLevel.REad).

#26397

Dec 04, 2008 8:19

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