User Management for Repository/Workspaces

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What is the desired behaviour?
A possible user has expressed a desire to manage repository users within 
Jackrabbit Explorer.

What, if it is not clear, is the main benefit of this feature?
In an advanced repository setup different users may be configured for access to 
different areas of the repository. Jackrabbit Explorer could provide a UI for 
managing these permissions.

How might this be tested and proved to be operational?
A more advanced repository setup than a default Jackrabbit installation is 
required. The SimpleLoginModule only distinguishes between admin and anonymous 
users. The former are granted all permissions, the latter global read only.

Notes:
From checking the API documentation I can see that we have access to Users and 
Groups which both implement Authorizable and are both created using 
Jackrabbit's UserManagerImpl. This would allow for one UI for managing both.

Permissions management may require investigation of JAAS as a more suitable 
authentication provider than the org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.simple 
implementations.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Sep 2011 at 12:53