Liferay 6.2. social office user bar and dockbar - liferay

In users' personal sites pages(/user/xx/so/dashboard), user bar and dockbar are not accessible from any user without the power user or administrator role. In every other site's page, users can normally access it without these 2 roles.
Why is this happening?

This issue was resolved by creating a hook that assigns automatically the Power User role on every newly created user.
A Liferay staff member told me that Power User role is required for all social office plugins, sites etc. liferay post

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Display User Personal Bar

I've created a user role, which doesn't inherit permissions from Guest. I've achieved it through portal-ext.properties with permissions.check.guest.enabled=false param. But now, if I logged in with this new user role, I can't log out, since I can see the User Personal Bar (probably because of some permission settings). Any idea how to enable the User Personal Bar for my custom user role? I'm using Liferay 7.1 CE.

Sitecore website: show/hide menu items based on logged in user role

I'm building a sitecore 7.2 using asp.net MVC 5.0. The site will have login and each user will be roles.
We need to show/hide the site menu items based on logged in user Roles. The user detail and roles are stored in SAP backend.
Could someone please advise what's the best way to achieve above?
Essentially you will want to map the roles stored in your backend system to Sitecore Roles. Potentially look into creating a custom Role Provider (see in document below)
Once logged in, requests are made to Sitecore are made in context of that logged in user. Therefore if the user, or their role, does not have permission to view an Item, it will not be returned in the request. This effect means that your Menu will not display items they do not have permission to access.
You and Content Editors can control what users and roles can access via the Security Editor and view their access rights via the Access Viewer in the Content Editor.
This documents will have everything you need - http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/sc61keywords/security_api_cookbook_usletter.pdf
http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/securityadministratorscookbook-usletter.pdf
Its also worth noting that Sitecore's seucirty manages roles as Ors. So if one of the user's role has permission to see an Item, then the user can see it.
If you require the roles to be Ands; every role must have permission before its displayed to the user, check this post out - http://www.sitecore.net/learn/blogs/technical-blogs/john-west-sitecore-blog/posts/2015/03/require-membership-in-multiple-roles-in-the-sitecore-aspnet-cms.aspx
You need the roles for the current user from SAP? There is an Odata API for that: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/4c/5bde6197817511e10000000a42189b/content.htm
You could query the API in real-time, but it would of course require a login to SAP for the current user.
Or - you could use another API and connect via a service user.

Liferay 6.2 User permissions

I have created a 'Site User' role which is appropriate for users who will be Viewers on every available portlet. For example a user with this role should be only allowed to view documents in Documents and Media portlet but not allowed to add a new document or edit an existed.
I have defined the proper permissions in my Site role, however users with this Site role are still able to create events or add documents etc.
All these users are also assigned with the Social Office User role but as I'm seeing there is no such permission granted from this role.
I'm wondering if this is a normal behavior or the only solution is to modify portlets in a way that they won't allow users without the 'Site Admin' role to perform certain actions.
They're most likely still assigned to the "User" role (portal wide), or gets the permission from being a "Site Member". As you can't remove permissions, only add them through roles, check these roles for their bundled permissions.
They're assigned as default to Site Member role as Olaf stated. Look this file:
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-impl/src/resource-actions/documentlibrary.xml
As Site Member you have :
<site-member-defaults>
<action-key>ADD_DOCUMENT</action-key>
<action-key>ADD_FOLDER</action-key>
<action-key>ADD_SHORTCUT</action-key>
<action-key>SUBSCRIBE</action-key>
<action-key>VIEW</action-key>
</site-member-defaults>
as default action permissions.

How to deactivate a liferay user for particular organization?

I have a requirement to deactivate a user for a particular organization.In liferay we deactivate the user directly by control panel under users tool.if i deactivate,The user will deactivate in portal level so it is applicable to all organizations not to particular organization.so can i do manual code for this or is there any alternative by default?
User Management in Liferay is global - to the whole portal. You authenticate to the portal, thus a deactivated user can't be authenticated to the portal.
You can make users members of Organizations or site - and this membership (or other organization- or site-level roles) can be used to provide them with permissions.
If you want them to be able to sign in, don't deactivate them. If you don't want them to access a certain organization, make the content of that organization available to members only - and exclude the user from the members of that organization.
OK you could do this in code level ,
User singleUser=UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(userId)
singleUser.setStatus(WorkflowConstants.STATUS_DENIED);
UserLocalServiceUtil.updateUser(singleUser);
So basically setting User Status to either WorkflowConstants.STATUS_DENIED, WorkflowConstants.STATUS_EXPIRED or WorkflowConstants.STATUS_INACTIVE will do the work of deactivating particular User.
But you need to research on the aftermath effect of these status field.

sharepoint access

Is there any method available for sharepoint that can do the following:
Create an internet site suing wss3.0. login using fba. no need to login to edit documents from library that logged in user has access to.
change the password of a user from the site?
You can create an internet site using FBA under WSS 3.0. You will need the appropriate license, which I believe is called the "internet connector" license in the case of WSS. I'm not sure what you mean by "no need to login to edit documents from library that logged in user has access to." You can expose a document library to anonymous users even if authenticated users have specific privileges to it, if that's what you mean. You can write a custom web part that will allow administrators or users themselves to change user passwords from within the site.

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