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Getting to know Security

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Description

Introducing Security

The Security system in Enterprise Architect is designed to facilitate collaboration and not as a barrier to incursion.

The information contained in the Repository is a valuable organizational asset and needs to be maintained and secured as such. The asset needs to be protected from both intentional and inadvertent compromises of content. The security system allows update functions to be restricted to a set of users or groups with the defined permission. Packages, Elements and Diagrams can be locked by users preventing others from updating them.

Where to find Security

Ribbon: Configure > Security

Usage of Security

Security has been designed to control access to update functions to groups and users who have been granted the access to perform these functions. Packages, Elements and Diagrams can also be locked for change by a Group or User preventing others from changing them. The security system has been designed primarily to facilitate collaboration and cannot be used to restrict users from viewing parts of the model.

Options for Security

Security itself is optional in Enterprise Architect and by default is not enabled. If it is required, security can be enabled and a security policy can be set. There are two policies that can be set which dictate the way security functions:

  1. Require User Lock to Edit - (More Rigorous Policy) the whole project is locked against editing and the user must deliberately lock an element to be able to edit it.
  2. User/group locking - (Less Rigorous Policy) the whole repository is unlocked. When a modeler edits an element or diagram the element or set of elements is automatically locked preventing others from editing them.

Any number of users and groups can be defined and users can be given individual permissions and also placed into one or more groups which have permissions defined. The set of permissions for a user is the sum of their individual permissions plus those of any groups they are assigned to. Users can be defined manually or imported from Active Directory allowing single sign-on using Windows Authentication.

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