User groups

[gheidel]

Does Acegi support the concept of user groups? For example, a bank application that defined a user group called tellers. Permissions would be associated with the group and anyone belonging to the tellers group would have those permissions? How would this be implemented using Acegi?

Thanks.

[Ben Alex]

Acegi Security only supports the notion of principals being assigned GrantedAuthority[]s.

Any administrative conveniences the aggregate GrantedAuthority[]s, such as groups, are an implementation responsibility. You'd be best off achieving this via an AuthenticationDao that understands your GROUPS table (assuming of course you're using DaoAuthenticationProvider like most people).

[gheidel]

Thanks for the quick response.