ODS-Briefcase WebID? based ACL Sharing to Group Guide

  1. Configure Virtuoso+ODS instance as an X.509 Certificate Authority and HTTPS listener
  2. Generate a Personal HTTP based Identifier for fictitious Person Entity: Tom and then bind his personal Identifier to an X.509 Certificate (thereby giving him a WebID?)
  3. Generate a Personal HTTP based Identifier for fictitious Person Entity: Anna and then bind her personal Identifier to an X.509 Certificate (thereby giving her a WebID?)
  4. Log into ODS-Briefcase as user "Demo" (a Person Entity)
  5. Create a WebID Protocol Group, for ex. with name "MyWebIDGroup?" and add the users Tom and Anna's WebID?'s to it: 

    -- Tom's WebID
http://cname/dataspace/person/tom#this

-- Anna's WebID
 http://cname/dataspace/person/anna#this

  6. Share an ODS-Briefcase hosted resource explicitly with "Tom and Anna" via their Group WebID?: 

     http://<cname>/dataspace/user-name/group/MyWebIDGroup

    1. For a given resource go to ODS-Briefcase ->Resource->Edit->Sharing tab.
    2. In the "WebID? users" section click the "Add" button in order to add new WebID? and set respectively the desired rights.



    3. In the shown form:
      1. Select for "Access Type": Group
      2. Enter WebID? Protocol Group or selected it from the offered list:



      3. Set Web Access, for example by checking the (R)ead check-box.



      4. Click the "Update" button.
  7. As user which belongs to the WebID? Protocol Group "MyWebIDGroup?": Tom, attempt to view the resource shared by Person Entity "Demo" by doing the following:
  8. As user which belongs to the WebID? Protocol Group "MyWebIDGroup?": Anna, attempt to view the resource shared by Person Entity "Demo" by doing the following:

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