[rabbitmq-discuss] access control help

[Simon MacMullen]

On 05/04/11 04:34, Cha wrote:
> I'm a newbie using rabbitmq. We currently have one durable exchange, how
> can we limit users to remove/delete the exchange? If we don't give the
> 'configure' permission to our users, they can't even access the exchange
> based on my testing. Seems like the exchangeDeclarePassive and
> exchangeDeclare will both fail.

You don't need to declare the exchange to access it.

> What I need is only give users read permission on a queue.

In that case, giving them configure: '', write: '', read: '.*' 
permissions should work, as long as the queue and exchange have been 
declared and bound beforehand - they should be able to consume, get and 
purge the queue, and that's it.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
Staff Engineer, RabbitMQ
SpringSource, a division of VMware