4.2 Managing Access Control for Users and Groups

Novell Teaming provides a table on the Configure Access Control page that enables you to make all of your needed access control modifications. You must use this table to perform any access control modifications in Teaming.

Figure 4-1 Access Control Table

Access Control Table

4.2.1 Accessing the Configure Access Control Page

To access the Configure Access Control page:

  1. Navigate to the workspace or folder where you want to modify user access rights.

  2. Click Manage > Access Control, in the Folder or Workspace toolbar.

    or

    Click Who Has Access > Configure Access Control, in the Folder or Workspace toolbar.

    The Configure Access Control page is displayed.

4.2.2 Activating the Table

Before you can make modifications to the table on the Configure Access Control page, you need to ensure that the folder or workspace does not inherit its access control settings from its parent folder or workspace:

  1. In the section Folder Inheritance section, select no, then click Apply.

    Folder Inheritance

    You can now make modifications to the table.

Figure 4-2 Access Control Table

Access Control Table

4.2.3 Adding Roles to the Access Control Table

  1. Click the Add a Role link at the top of the table.

  2. From the drop-down list, select the role that you want to add.

    Teaming adds a new column for the new role.

  3. Assign the appropriate user or group to this role by selecting the check box in the user’s or group’s row, as described in Section 4.2.6, Assigning Roles to Users and Groups.

    For information on how to add a new user to the access control table, see Section 4.2.4, Adding Users to the Access Control Table.

    For information on how to add a new group to the access control table, see Section 4.2.5, Adding Groups to the Access Control Table.

  4. Click Save Changes.

4.2.4 Adding Users to the Access Control Table

You can individually add users to the Access Control table, or you can add them by using the Teaming clipboard.

Adding Individual Users

  1. Click the Add a User link in the left column of the table.

  2. In the Add a User field, begin typing the name of the user that you want to add, then select that user from the provided list.

    Teaming adds a new row to the table for the new user.

  3. Assign the user to the appropriate role by selecting the check box in the column of the user’s row, as described in Section 4.2.6, Assigning Roles to Users and Groups.

  4. Click Save Changes.

Adding Users from the Clipboard

  1. In the upper left corner of the Access Control table, click Add User Names from Clipboard.

    All of the users who are currently on your clipboard are added to the Access Control table.

    For more information on how to use the Teaming clipboard, see Using the Teaming Clipboard in the Novell Teaming 2.1 User Guide.

  2. Assign the users to the appropriate role by selecting the check box in the column of each user’s row, as described in Section 4.2.6, Assigning Roles to Users and Groups.

  3. Click Save Changes.

4.2.5 Adding Groups to the Access Control Table

  1. Click the Add a Group link in the left column of the table.

  2. In the Add a Group field, begin typing the name of the group that you want to add, then select that group from the provided list.

    Teaming adds a new row to the table for the new group.

  3. Assign the group to the appropriate role by selecting the check box in the column of the group’s row, as described in Section 4.2.6, Assigning Roles to Users and Groups.

  4. Click Save Changes.

4.2.6 Assigning Roles to Users and Groups

A role is a set of privileges. When you assign a user or group to a role, that user or group automatically has all the rights associated with that role.

  1. Ensure that the user or group and the role that you want to associate with the user or group are visible in the Access Control table.

    For information on how to add a role or a user or group to the table, see Section 4.2.3, Adding Roles to the Access Control Table, Section 4.2.4, Adding Users to the Access Control Table, and Section 4.2.5, Adding Groups to the Access Control Table.

  2. In the row of the user or group, select the check box that is located in the role column that you want to assign to the user or group.

  3. Click Save Changes.

If you want to unassign a role:

  1. Simply deselect the appropriate check box, then click Save Changes.

4.2.7 Creating Custom Roles

Only Teaming administrators have the ability to create custom roles.

For information on how to create custom roles, see Defining a New Role in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Administration Guide.

4.2.8 Adjusting Access Controls in Another Place

Teaming enables you to adjust the access control settings of any workspace or folder, directly from the Configure Access Control page.

  1. In the workspace tree at the top of the Configure Access Control page, navigate to the place where you want to adjust the access controls.

  2. Click the linked title of the place where you want to adjust the access controls.

    Teaming displays the Configure Access Control page for the page that you specified.