The ACL docs say:

You’ll also need to populate the database with the four ACL-specific tables listed in the last section (refer to the ACL samples for the appropriate SQL statements).

The samples are described in the previous section of the docs as:

Two samples ship with Spring Security that demonstrate the ACL module. The first is the Contacts Sample, and the other is the Document Management System (DMS) Sample.

But neither of those samples exists in the spring-security-samples repo, and none of the existing samples seem to refer to the ACL tables.

EDIT: Originally I thought this meant the schemas were undocumented, but I see they're documented in an appendix. The main part of the docs should probably point to the appendix instead of the samples.

Comment From: jzheaux

Thanks for bringing this up, @sgrimm. The documentation is referring to the contacts and dms samples that have not yet been migrated from Spring Security into spring-security-samples.

I think it would be helpful to do two things:

  1. Update the existing documentation to point to the 5.4.x samples - we are already doing this with some yet-to-be-migrated samples.
  2. Add a ticket to spring-security-samples to get the samples migrated.

Are you able to submit a PR that updates the docs and then also add a ticket to do the migration?

Comment From: marcusdacoregio

Thanks @jzheaux and @sgrimm.

I've updated an already created ticket to include those two ACL samples.

Comment From: marcusdacoregio

Thanks @sgrimm. The two samples are now migrated to the new samples repository and I have updated the documentation to point to those samples.