Security questions.

[wdchilders]

In the EA_Deployment white paper, section 8, it's claimed that

For more information on security features in Enterprise Architect, see Enterprise Architect’s help under: Model management | Team Development | User Security

Where is this?  

Also in "Version_Control" it says ...

User Security plays an important role in facilitating collaborative modeling. By
applying security locks, teams members avoid overwriting each others' changes and avoid inadvertent model changes
by users who are not designated as model authors.

That implies I can restrict write access to a model root to just the model authors?  How do I do this in a dbms repository with multiple model roots?  I want different people to be able to update some models but not others.  How?

[qwerty]

The help index has obviously changed to Projects and Teams/Team Development/Configure User Security.

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[Geert Bellekens]

That implies I can restrict write access to a model root to just the model authors?  How do I do this in a dbms repository with multiple model roots?  I want different people to be able to update some models but not others.  How?

You could look into group locks, or otherwise use an external version control system to manage the write rights.

Geert

[Luis J. Lobo]

The best approach: Security Locks

[Guillaume]

I'm also wondering about the best approach to achieve the following :
- share an EA project using VC (e.g. SVN) so it can be accessed by several people
- define various user groups (in EA security or SVN) to define at the package granularity the access rights (forbidden access, read-only, read/write)

I was thinking about using SVN and set different access rights per directory, each within I'll store the whole bunch of XMI for all packages > I have an issue with the EAP if it's shared in the SVN root since I'd like to prevent access to some the models

A good solution doesn't seem straightforward..

Guillaume

[qwerty]

A good solution doesn't seem straightforward..

Absolutely! It is much underestimated by most people. Setting up EA in any environment is a highly individual and challenging task. Nothing you get out-of-the-box.

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