Restricted Public Folder

[sija220]

Is it possible to restrict a public folder for users?
e.g. I have a group named Management and a public folder called Management and I like to restriced this folder for all other users (c, r, s, d, a)

Thanks

[florian]

In general, Public Folders can have ACLs to allow/permit access by certain users.

These permissions can be set through either Outlook or the command line (check the omaddacl, omaddacln command man pages).

Therefore, what you want is possible in general terms, i.e. one can set the default permissions for a public folder to NONE and then allow specific users various levels of access.

Unfortunately, as of Scalix 9.4, it is not possible to set permissions for a Group or PDL. We will be adding this feature in one of the next releases as it has been requested by many customers.

Until then, if you need to setup permissions for a group of users, you have two choices:
1) put the users on a different "mailnode" (organizational unit); mailnodes can be used in wildcard ACL patterns on the command line; this would allow to separate out the "Management" people in your case. Unfortunately, a user can only be setup on one mailnode at a time, so this is not as powerful as arbitrarily grouping users.
2) Do the permission setting through a script. PDL members can be accessed using the omshowpdln command; in a script, you can then apply permissions to every group member using the omaddacln/ommodacln command as described above. Scalix services can help you with such setup, should you require support.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

[florian]

In general, Public Folders can have ACLs to allow/permit access by certain users.

These permissions can be set through either Outlook or the command line (check the omaddacl, omaddacln command man pages).

Therefore, what you want is possible in general terms, i.e. one can set the default permissions for a public folder to NONE and then allow specific users various levels of access.

Unfortunately, as of Scalix 9.4, it is not possible to set permissions for a Group or PDL. We will be adding this feature in one of the next releases as it has been requested by many customers.

Until then, if you need to setup permissions for a group of users, you have two choices:
1) put the users on a different "mailnode" (organizational unit); mailnodes can be used in wildcard ACL patterns on the command line; this would allow to separate out the "Management" people in your case. Unfortunately, a user can only be setup on one mailnode at a time, so this is not as powerful as arbitrarily grouping users.
2) Do the permission setting through a script. PDL members can be accessed using the omshowpdln command; in a script, you can then apply permissions to every group member using the omaddacln/ommodacln command as described above. Scalix services can help you with such setup, should you require support.

Hope this helps,
Florian.