Monday, December 8, 2008

Apply ACL to a child objects

From the very beginning (CloudBerry Explorer 1.0) we have the ability to apply ACL to multiple selected objects. It is usefull when you have a lot of objects in the bucket and want to apply the same permissions (for example grant Read access for AllUsers) to all of them. I thought that it is more then enough, but quite a few customers asked about the ability to propagate permissions to a child objects. It's ok and we will easily implement it in nearest release. But the question is: should we automatically apply "parent" ACL to file uploaded? So user can set up ACL for a bucket or folder and next time he will upoad file into the bucket the bucket's ACL will automatically applied to te file. It would be usefull, but i think it should be an option and user will decide if he want ACL to be applied manually or not.

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