Extend portfolio access control docs#82
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- Explicitly calls out that permissions and project access are orthogonal concepts.
- Provides example pattern that demonstrates how per-project permissions can be emulated.
- Documents how ACL is inherited, may be bypassed, and behaves WRT project creation.
* Explicitly calls out that permissions and project access are orthogonal concepts. * Provides example pattern that demonstrates how per-project permissions can be emulated. * Documents how ACL is inherited, may be bypassed, and behaves WRT project creation. Signed-off-by: nscuro <nscuro@protonmail.com>
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Pull request overview
Expands the Dependency-Track access control documentation to clarify the relationship between permissions and Portfolio Access Control (PAC), and relocates authentication-flow material into the relevant authentication guides.
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- Restructures
docs/concepts/access-control.md: clarifies that permissions and ACLs are orthogonal, adds a separating-teams pattern with a Mermaid diagram, and documents ACL inheritance, thePORTFOLIO_ACCESS_CONTROL_BYPASSbypass, and project-creation behavior under PAC. - Moves the LDAP and OIDC authentication-flow descriptions out of the access-control concept page and into their respective administration guides.
- Adds the
PACabbreviation and minor copy edits in the OIDC guide.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| docs/concepts/access-control.md | Major expansion of PAC documentation; removes auth flow sections; rewrites effective-permissions note. |
| docs/guides/administration/configuring-ldap.md | Adds "Authentication flow" section relocated from the concepts page. |
| docs/guides/administration/configuring-oidc.md | Adds "Authentication flow" section and a small wording tweak in the frontend note. |
| docs/includes/abbreviations.md | Adds PAC abbreviation expansion. |
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