1. A computer implemented process, responsive to an entity attempting to access a resource in a data repository, initiates a view processor component of IBM's WEBSPHERE Virtual Member Manager, wherein the view processor performs steps comprising: retrieving a delegated administration path describing the location of a resource in a custom organizational hierarchy; identifying a security policy for the resource; identifying a security policy for an entity attempting to access the resource; applying the security policy of the entity to the delegated administration path and security policy of the resource; and sending the delegated administration path with the applied security policies to an authorization engine, so that access to the resource can be granted or denied.