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  • Effective Permissions 2013

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    I’m currently in an amazingly interesting DB training class. So I decided to do some Vault app programming so that my heart wouldn’t explode from all the excitement. The result is Effective Permissions 2013. It’s an update of my Effective Folder Permissions 2.0. The ‘Folder’ part of the name has been dropped since it now…

  • Cloaked Files

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    Here on the Vault team, we like Star Trek as much as the next group of computer programmers, which partly explains how we came up with the name "Cloaked" for one of the File properties.  The concept is that there is a file in the Vault that the logged-in user does not have read access…

  • Security

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    Vault uses two different security mechanisms.  There is a system based on user permissions and a system based on access control lists (ACL).  The permissions-based security is part of the base Vault functionality, but the ACL based security is an optional feature which may or may not be available depending on the version of Vault.…