User/Group Permissions

A set of permissions is assigned to each user or group. Those rights are used to authorise access to certain SmartView World functions for a particular user. By default the ‘super’ user has all permissions and these permissions cannot be reduced. A newly created user or group has no permissions. A user will inherit the permissions from all groups to which he belongs.

The User/Group Permissions panel allows you to change the permissions of a certain user or group. The right

of one user for changing another user’s or group’s access rights is determined by the parent/child relationship between them. When one user is creating another user, he will implicitly become the parent of that new user and hence has the right to change his permissions. More generally, a certain user has the right to change another user’s or group’s permissions only if he stands higher in the ancestry than the other one. The ’super’ user stands at the top (or the root) of the ancestry, hence has the right to change everybody’s permissions.

Additionally, there is the restriction that a user can never give more permission to others than those he has. For example, if a user has no permission to change the network settings he won’t be able to grant this right to somebody else. However, a user has always the right to reduce the set of permissions of his descendants.

In order to change the permissions of a user/group you have to select the user/group first. This is done using the selection list at the top of the User/ Group Permissions panel. The selection list will show only users and groups for which you have the right to change their permissions. Next, clicking the ‘Update’ button will show the permission list of that user. Every right in the list has a permission value, which is explained below. The displayed columns differ, depending on the user/group selected and the one logged in:

Effective Permission - The final permission which decides if a user may access a specific SmartView World function or not.

User Permission - Permission for the currently selected user/group. If the user selected equals to the one logged in it is only possible to view the value, otherwise a select box appears to change it.

Inherited Group Permission - Permission value inherited from the groups a user belongs to. This column is not available while a group is selected.

User and group permissions

There are 26 functions and for each, the superuser can apply one of up to six different settings. Roughly speaking the settings below are listed in decreasing order of status, i.e. if the inherited group permission gave ‘allow view’ and the individual user setting for the same function was ‘allow change’, then the ‘Effective Permission’ would be ‘allow change’.

allow change The user can change the entry settings.

allow access The user can use this function.

allow view The user can view the entry.

deny change The user can see but not change the entry’s settings.

deny access The user cannot see or use this function.

group setting Use the permission inherited from the group(s) the user belongs to. Default is to deny access.

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Adder Technology Switch manual User/Group Permissions, User and group permissions

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