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Aurora Edit Security

Controlling asset visibility and access

patrick thompson, 

Senior Software Engineer

January 2011

Using the Aurora Edit Security feature, you can 
control  which  users  and  groups  have  which 
permissions (read, write, delete, etc.) on which 

assets in the Aurora Edit bin tree.

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Summary of Contents for Aurora Edit Security

Page 1: ...ibility and access Patrick Thompson Senior Software Engineer January 2011 Using the Aurora Edit Security feature you can control which users and groups have which permissions read write delete etc on which assets in the Aurora Edit bin tree www grassvalley com ...

Page 2: ...to effect fine grained access control of the Aurora Edit assets including master clips subclips sequences graphics and bins Subclips and sequences are controlled by their containing bins Aurora Edit security is essentially the application of Active Directory controls to Aurora Edit assets Introduction Technical Background Example As an elementary example suppose that your organization has the bins...

Page 3: ...ample are not imposed by Aurora Edit these entities are chosen by the user Active Directory and in turn Aurora Edit support whatever schema your organization requires Security in action In the screen capture below user Joe Intern a member of the Interns group has attempted to delete a sub clip within the Monday bin and been denied permission Example cont Bin Group Permissions User Permissions Edit...

Page 4: ...in the file system As an alternative to setting permissions with Aurora Edit you can set permissions directly on the associated folders using for example Windows Explorer or any administrative application Typically during configuration organizations establish an inheritance and group hierarchy for assets and users such that permissions do not require constant management the desired access control ...

Page 5: ...ecurity disabled With simple changes to two configuration files and a system wide reboot the system will reawaken ready to support permissions Note This is not a destructive change existing assets are preserved Set permissions on the file system according to your schema This can be done efficiently by exploiting the features of groups and of inheritance The setting can be executed on Aurora Edit o...

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