Exposes two special principal types as string constants: #AUTHENTICATED-USERS and #CREATOR-OWNER. These principal types are not real directory service entities; they represent special pseudo-accounts.

The #AUTHENTICATED-USERS pseudo-account is a logical group, all of whose members are authenticated users.

The #CREATOR-OWNER principal is the pseudo-account granted to the user who creates an object. It is a placeholder for the future owner of an object. A specific set of permissions (ACL) is defined for this account. These permissions provide full control over the created object. When the ACL is actually used, the real identity of the user accessing the object is substituted and becomes the actual owner ID. This occurs in the following instances:

When security templates are applied. When an object inherits security from a parent. When a security descriptor is initialized from the class's default instance security. An exception to this rule is when the object's DefaultInstanceOwner property is set to Null, in which case permissions from the default instance security that specify #CREATOR-OWNER as the grantee are ignored and not copied to the Permissions collection of the created object.
Namespace: FileNet.Api.Constants
Assembly: FileNet.Api (in filenet.api.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
<SerializableAttribute>
Public Class SpecialPrincipal
    Implements ISerializable
C#
[SerializableAttribute]
public class SpecialPrincipal : ISerializable
C++
[SerializableAttribute]
ref class SpecialPrincipal : ISerializable
J#
/** @attribute SerializableAttribute() */
public class SpecialPrincipal implements ISerializable
JScript
public 
   SerializableAttribute
class SpecialPrincipal extends ISerializable

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
   FileNet.Api.Constants.SpecialPrincipal

Thread Safety

Public static (Shared in Visual Basic)staticShared members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

See Also