How do ACLs work?

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Introduction:

ACLs is an extra authentication backend in Nexus. It has a predefined set of permissions that can be reused across user-groups and object categories. These permissions and their association with object categories are stored in the database, making them persistent. ACLs is backwards compatible: older versions of external tools like template editor and EnSight can still communicate without changing anything.

Basics:

Users/Groups


Superusers


Categories


Permissions

Permissions are of 2 types:

- per-category

- global

per-category permissions

global permissions

Working:

The working is simple and straightforward: