You can assign security permission levels for users and
groups and control their access to repositories and any object in
the repository.
About this task
Security permission levels for users and groups can only be assigned for secured
repositories (those created with Internal or LDAP security). You can apply permission levels to
any object that is listed in the repository including for example, directories, folders, workspaces
and individual query and reporting objects.
Only users who have been identified as QMF administrators can assign security
permission levels to users and groups. In addition, users that have been granted full permission
privileges can modify permissions that have been applied to objects.
To assign users and groups different levels of permission to use repository
objects:
Procedure
- Right-click any repository object that is listed in the Repositories, Repository
Explorer or Workspaces views. Select Properties from
the pop-up menu. The Properties window opens.
Select Security from the sidebar. The Security page
of the window opens.
- Each user or group that has been granted permission to
use this repository is listed in the Group or user names list.
To add additional users and groups, click the Add button.
The Select Users or Groups window opens.
- Each user and group can be assigned different levels of
permissions for the selected repository object. The levels of permission
that are available are listed in the Permissions for list.
To assign a level of permission, select a group or user and check
the corresponding check box for the level of permissions that you
want to assign. Your choices are:
- Full: grants the user or group permission
to perform all functions (edit, view, browse and delete) on the repository
object. In addition, full permission allows users to modify permissions
that have been assigned to the repository object.
- Edit: grants the user or group permission
to make changes to, as well as view and browse, the repository object.
- Browse: grants the user or group permission
to see the contents of the repository object. For example, browse
privileges on a directory in the repository allows a user to see what
is inside that directory. Browse privileges on a query object allows
a user to open and run the query object.
- View: grants the user or group permission
to see the repository object listed in the repository. For example,
view privileges on a directory in the repository allows the user only
to see the directory. The user cannot open the directory or see the
contents of the directory. View privileges on a query object allow
a user only to see the object. They cannot open or run the object.
- None: denies the user or group permission
to see that the repository object is included in the repository.
- Click Apply permissions to child folders and
objects to apply the selected level of permission to all
of the folders and objects that are under the object to which the
permission is being applied.
- To remove permission from a user or group, select the user
or group from the Group or user names list.
Click Remove. The user or group will be removed
from the list.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.