View Full Version : Package Replication and Permissions
Has anyone noticed that ACL settings are lost after replicating a package from another server (wM 6.0.1)? I just published a package and installed it on another server. In reviewing the settings on the second server I noticed that my ACLs were once again Default, whereas I had changed the Write ACL on the original server. I had both servers open in Developer and verified that the ACL settings were different (and yes, I refreshed to be sure :-). Surely, this is a bug right? This is going to make deployment a bit more cumbersome.
No Michael, this is NOT a bug. The ACLs aren't located within the package zip, instead they are in the config/acls files. Unfortunately there's no easy way to migrate these ACLs along with the packages. You could automate a process to get and set the ACLs on the second server using the wm.server flow services (largely undocumented but you can look at the .dsp files to see what's going on) - or extract the info from the acl xml files I mentioned.
Ouch, I see. Thanks Will, that's good to know. I'm sure we don't have time to automate this, we'll just write it up in our config guide for now. I suppose this is mostly an administrative activity, so I'm OK with that, but I think the fact that these ACLs can be set in Developer is misleading if the settings can't be deployed as configured. I guess I'll go grip to webMethods about it. Thanks again.