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Should I prepopulate resources and permissions in my system?

I am following the rbac model in my system. I want to know if I should prepopulate the resources and permissions table? I have resources like contracts, contract_drafts, SLA (service level agreement)...
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How to design role based access control?

I am trying to follow the role bases access control model to restrict what users can or cannot do in my system. So far I have the following entities: users - People who will use the system. Here I ...
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Proper way to differentiate user types in OO

I'm designing an application where I have users and admins (further down in the future, I can have different sub-ranks, where each one can have access to some area of the application). Currently, I ...
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Adding support for privileges to an ASP.NET MVC application already supporting roles based authorization

I currently have a system where there is a user table, a role table, and a user-roles association table, where one user can be associated to multiple roles (like Admin, BasicUser, etc.). I am able to ...
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Correct Way to Implementing Authorization Checks in ASP MVC

In ASP MVC we have the Authorize attribute to perform check at either a controller level or at a controller method level. But what if you need to do check permissions inside a controller method e.g ...
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Role vs Permission Based Access Control

I'm trying to understand the inherent tradeoff between roles and permissions when it comes to access control (authorization). Let's start with a given: in our system, a Permission will be a fine-...
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Custom Role Provider in ASP.NET MVC and specifically a User having multiple Roles

I have searched around and I can't find any particular answer that addresses what I am asking but no doubt it will have been mentioned already somewhere. I know that when you inherit from an abstract ...
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