<div dir="ltr"><div>Let me give you an example from a previous workplace - a large engineering firm. <br></div><div><br></div><div>We ran QGIS as a corporate GIS. </div><div>Data was controlled through Window Explorer permissions as well as ArcGIS Rest Servers. <br></div><div>Users were either blocked from certain data, allowed read only or given full access. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Worked really well. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Em<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 02:27, David Strip 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Expanding on what Chris said - <br>
Qgis does not own or manage data, Qgis manipulates and displays data
from files, databases, and web services. As Chris points out, access
to files is controlled through OS settings, databases by database
settings. Web services may require authentication for access. When
Qgis is used to create derivative datasets, these will be stored in
a file system or database, again subject to the sorts of access
restrictions that these systems provide. <br>
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On 5/30/2023 9:59 AM, chris hermansen via QGIS-User wrote:
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<div>Simon and list,<br>
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<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" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello, </div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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