<div dir="auto"><div>Simon and list,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 30, 2023, 08:48 Simon via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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It's me again, I just had some questions regarding the ability to control access in QGIS. First of all, is it even possible? Can an organization (like departments of the Canadian government) control who has access to which database or file? Can the IT department
of that organization manage the access?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Access to files is controlled through operating system settings. Access to databases is controlled by database settings. Normally in organizations system administrators manage these settings.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whatever software application is run is limited in its access by those settings. It would be unusual for an end user software application to further manage access.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Settings typically include ability to read, ability to write, ability create and ability delete. So for example a set of shape files could be shared as read only to users, to a group of users, or via access control lists.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To your point - access to resources is not controlled through QGIS; it is controlled by the operating system, and by the database server if one is used.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div>
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