1. In a computer network having a plurality of users of the network and comprising a database management system and a content management system controlling access to a plurality of entities shareable by said users of the network, the content management system using an access control list (ACL) table having group privilege rules and user privilege rules for controlling access to the entities, a method of resolving user privileges in the content management system to access user-selected entities, the method comprising: providing a run-time compiled ACL table, the run-time compiled ACL table including resolved privilege rules for each of said users available at run-time; and using said content management system, accessing user-selected ones of said entities based on said resolved privilege rules of said run-time compiled ACL table.