Security

Authentication

Authentication is how a user gains access to the Vault repository.

Security Access

Security access rights refer to the user’s ability to view, modify and delete files and folders within a Vault tree. Access rights can be set for an entire repository or individually on each folder within a repository for any user. However, access rights cannot be set on individual files.

In addition, groups can be defined that have security access rights by folder. Please see Group Rights for more details.

When a new user is added, the user has full access to all repositories in the Vault server.

Access rights can be turned off entirely to increase performance since checks to the database do not need to be made. This is the default setting.

Security rights can be set in one the following ways:

· Repository-Level Access

You can deny a user access to an entire repository, which does not allow them to choose that repository when logging in.

· Rights by Folder

Setting the access rights by folder gives you an overall view of the repository and all the access rights. For more information, please see Folder Security tab in the Admin Tool.

· Assignments for User

Setting the access rights by user gives you an overall view of each user and their access rights. For more information, please see the Users tab in the Admin Tool.

· Assignments for Groups

Setting the access rights by groups allows you to easily assign access rights to users that applies to all repositories within a vault server. For more information, please see Group Rights and the Groups tab in the Admin Tool.

· Copy User Rights

Setting the access rights by copying user rights allows you to copy the rights created for one user to those of another. For more information, please see Copy Rights Assignments.