[ome-users] Current OMERO rights policy

[Will Moore]

Hi Oliver,

  We have set up a page to describe how permissions will work in the  
4.2 release.
http://www.openmicroscopy.org.uk/site/support/omero4/server/permissions/
(lots of sentences there I'm afraid!)

Please let us have any feedback about this, since it is new  
functionality and still evolving.
Although we believe that what we plan to release for 4.2 should  
address most users' needs.

  Cheers,

    Will.


On 19 May 2010, at 09:37, Josh Moore wrote:

>
> (forwarding to list)
>
> Oliver Müller writes:
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> can you say one sentence about the current OMERO policy concerning
>> user rights?
>
>> Can I view other user's data using OMERO.insight, for instance? (I
>> am not sure, but I think in Beta 3 this was possible and considered
>> as a problem ...)
>
> Before 4.1, it was possible to set the permissions on a per-object
> basis, which allowed users to share objects within and between
> groups. This turned out to be too flexible. Too many edge cases were
> possible, the implications of which no user would expect.
>
> Therefore, in 4.1, we reduced all permissions to private to give us
> time to correct the situation. In 4.2, permissions can again be
> properly managed, but on a per-group basis.
>
> An entire group is either private, read-only collaborative, or fully
> collaborative. (Other options may be made available in upcoming
> versions). An object graph is guaranteed to be entirely in a single
> group, preventing the issues with the pre-4.1 permissions system. You
> can see ticket 1434 if you'd like to find out more.
>
> (sorry, that was more than one sentence.)
>
>> We use OMERO Beta 4.1.1 and cannot find the "share to specific
>> user" functionality ;-)
>
> Sharing happens via the basket in the web client. A demo movie is  
> available:
>
> http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/snapshots/movies/omero-4-1/mov/ShareImages.mov
>
> (linked from https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/feature- 
> list)
>
>> Viele Grüße - wir sehen uns in Paris,
>> -olli-
>
> Bis dann,
> ~Josh
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