Access control is the method by which you specify which users have the right to perform which tasks in which places.
Teaming uses role-based access control. By default, there are seven roles, and each role contains specific rights. If you want a particular user to have certain rights, then you can assign that user to the appropriate role.
For example, a user who has been assigned to the Participant role in a workspace or folder can add comments or replies, create entries, delete his or her own entries, modify his or her own entries, and read entries in that folder or workspace.
The following sections help you better understand how access control works in Novell Teaming.
By default, places inherit the access settings of their parent. When you establish settings for a primary space, all sub-places automatically apply the same settings, saving administration time. However, unlike other types of workspaces, team workspaces do not retain the access control settings of higher-level (parent) workspaces by default.
You can change the access control settings of a lower-level workspace and folder to be different from its parent workspace or folder. For information on how to do this, see Section 4.2, Managing Access Control for Users and Groups.
By default, all Teaming users have the following rights:
Participate in any team workspaces in which they are a member (create folders and entries, make comments, etc.)
Create team workspaces (by default, only members of a team can view and participate in team workspaces)
Visit all personal workspaces (read entries and comment on them)
Participate in all global workspaces and folders
Teaming includes seven default roles. Table 4-1 describes the function of each default role, but does not describe all of the rights for each role. For a complete list of rights, click the name of the role in the table on the Configure Access Control page. (In the Folder or Workspace toolbar, click > .)
For a complete list of roles that site administrators can add, see Controlling User Access throughout the Teaming Site
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Administration Guide.
Teaming also enables site administrators to create their own custom roles, as described in Defining a New Role
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Administration Guide. If you have a need for a custom role, consult your Teaming administrator.
Table 4-1 Default Access Control Roles
As you create users and groups in your Teaming site, you can assign default or custom access control roles to them. In addition to the users and groups that you create, Teaming includes four default users and groups to which you can assign roles. For information on how to do this, see Section 4.2, Managing Access Control for Users and Groups.
Table 4-2 defines the four default users and groups.
Table 4-2 Default Access Control Users and Groups