Authorization

Overview

Catalog defines a set of groups of users for each Study and Access Control Lists in different resources, providing a full customizable authorization mechanism. The resources that can define an ACL are File and Sample. These ACLs are hierarchically redden in order to determine the permission from a user over some data.

Each entry of the ACL specify the actions that a set of users with an specific resource. This set of users can refer to a single user, a group of users, or other users.

In this section we talk about:

• Groups
• Create new groups
• Manage groups
• Group permissions
• Access Control Lists
• Resolve File permissions
• Resolve Sample permissions

Groups

Access Control Lists