Elegantly see access control within file managers

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Hi everyone,

I am trying out some things and wanted to ask whether there is a possibility to elegently see in one of the file managing apps, what the access of the datasets within your POD is. In Penny I see that there are ACL entries. Its really hard to understand for me what they exactly mean tbh. The Solid File Manager looks really nice, but there I cannot find anything in that direction. In my imagination I would expect something like the output from ‘ls -l’ in command line on a Unix system.

Am I just not getting something or is it just an open issue or not implemented?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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You could try.

Or use mashlib data browser https://SolidOS.github.io/mashlib/dist/browse.html a pane display authorisation

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Thanks for the answer and sorry for the late reply. I finally tried both out, but to be honest I did not manage to use any of them..

  1. The mashlib data source I provide the POD address, afterwards I login (which works at other apps flawlessly) and then I get an error “Failed to load https://storage.inrupt.com/myaddress/ Fetcher: https://storage.inrupt.com/myaddress// status: 401
  2. I installed the Bashlib and then used “sld auth set https://people.org/alice/webid”. Afterwards I tried sld access list --pretty https://mypod.org/ a login window appears when hittin y. When selecting approve/allow access it hangs indefinitely.
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I opened a PR for the solid-file-manager, how I would wish to see the access rights information. There was already some feedback from Jesse and I would be glad for more from others, too.

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Your result is expected. Your pod is an inrupt.com one that is an ACP Authorisation server.
The app I was proposing are working with server running WAC Authorisation like https://solidcommunity.net

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Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I knew that they are different, but didn’t get, that this is the problem here. I will test it with an according pod again.