Roles in Alfresco are groups of permissions. Users can be granted access rights to any content or folder by assigning them specific roles. There are various out of the box roles available in Alfresco like Consumer
, Contributor
, Editor
, and Coordinator
. You can also customize and create custom roles. Alfresco supports various security models like LDAP, Active Directory, and Kerberos to provide authentication from a centralized directory.
In the next chapter, we will discuss ways to cluster the Alfresco server for high availability.