Access Control Tool for Adobe Experience Manager

The Access Control Tool for Adobe Experience Manager (AC Tool) simplifies the specification and deployment of complex Access Control Lists in AEM. Instead of existing solutions that build e.g. a content package with actual ACL nodes you can write simple configuration files and deploy them with your content packages.

Features:

easy-to-read Yaml configuration file format
run mode support
automatic installation with install hook
cleans obsolete ACL entries when configuration is changed
ACLs can be exported
stores history of changes
ensured order of ACLs
built-in expression language to reduce rule duplication

Requirements

The AC Tool requires Java 7 and AEM 6.1 (SP1) or above (use v1.x for older versions)

Installation

The package is available from the Maven Central repository. Install it e.g. via CRX package manager.

    <groupId>biz.netcentric.cq.tools.accesscontroltool</groupId>
    <artifactId>accesscontroltool-package</artifactId>

AEM6.x/Oak

In case you run AEM 6 with Oak (required as of 6.1) we recommend to install the Oak index package. It will speed up installation of ACLs.

You can get the ZIP file via Maven. Install it e.g. via CRX package manager.

    <groupId>biz.netcentric.cq.tools.accesscontroltool</groupId>
    <artifactId>accesscontroltool-oakindex-package</artifactId>

Migration to AC Tool

You can easily migrate to AC Tool following four simple steps.

Configuration of ACL entries

You need to setup Yaml configuration files to specify your users, groups and ACL entries. See also the best practices for hints on structuring.

There are also some advanced configuration options supported such as loops, conditional statements and permissions for anonymous.

Applying the ACL entries

There are multiple options to apply the ACL entries (e.g. install hook, JMX and upload listener) to your target system.

JMX interface

The JMX interface provides utility functions such as installing and dumping ACLs or showing the history.

History service

A history object collects messages, warnings, and also an exception in case something goes wrong. This history gets saved in CRX under /var/statistics/achistory. The number of histories to be saved can be configured in the history service.

Building the packages from source

If needed you can build the AC Tool yourself.

License

The AC Tool is licensed under the Eclipse Public License - v 1.0.

josephrignanese/accesscontroltool