Creating Secured Filesystem

A secure filesystem is an extension to the local filesystem and used when the file access
needs to be limited access to specific users and groups. A secure filesystem required a
special file called .access to be placed inside each restricted directory of the filesystem,
which allows the administrator to give different access privileges to named users and
groups.

Attached contains a jar file containing a folder named Sales with an .access file and one report sample.

Contents of .access file:

#This is a comment
read:Sharon
write:Jane

  • Unzip the jar file and drop the Sales folder into your local directory
  • Start Elixir Repertoire Server
  • Go to Administration -> Groups -> Create group
  • Create a group "Sales"
  • Go to Administration -> Users -> Create user
  • Create users - Sharon and Jane.
  • Go to Administration -> FileSystems -> Create filesystem
  • Select "Secure" for Type. Enter the path of Sales folder into Configuration field.
  • Log out from Elixir Server and log in as Jane
  • Launch Remote Designer. You should be able to view and create datasources/report/dashboards
  • Log out from Elixir Server and log in as Sharon
  • Launch Remote Designer. You should be able to view datasources/report/dashboards but you will not to be able to create any of them.

Sales.zip (3.4 KB)