EA users, resources; db users

[Peter Parslow]

We've been using a shared .EAP for some time, but the team is growing & it seems time to move to a database repository. It seems to make sense to enable EA's security at the same time.

I've read around a lot, including forum searches for 'repository', 'database', 'security'. I have a few questions:

1. is there any relationship between the Enterprise Architect security users & groups, and the database users (perhaps via Windows Active Directory)?

2. If this isn't automatic, is it a good plan to encourage/require users to connect to the database with their own user names? I guess that means, is there any future in trying to use database level security alongside/beneath EA's?

3. Do these EA security users have any relationship to the EA Project Management 'resources', e.g. is there a relationship between assigning a package to a resource & locking it for a user?

[Geert Bellekens]

1. You can import users from AD, and you can use windows authentication to log them in into EA.
2. It is definitely a good plan to require users to login with their own user/password. If you are using windows authentication they are not even bothered by the user/password prompt.
3. I don't think there's a relationship at all between EA users and Project Management resources (but I'm not sure)

Geert