Re: webdb security

Doug Dahlke wrote:
>
> My head is sore, so I'm posting this for some insite. Thanks in advance
> if anyone who knows this. (I'm surprised there isn't just a webdb
> discussion group as buggy as this product is). The potential is there
> for a great tool for small database access, but some areas are rough.
> We were having trouble with this in version 2.1 so I upgraded to 2.2 and
> it still works the same.
>
> I am just starting me web application with a simple report on an
> existing table. I have set up the report for public access because site
> admin only sees webdb components if there is public access. I thought
> to fix this, I would set up security via site folder administration and
> only give a certain role (purchasing) to have access to this folder. In
> the folder I have the report for purchasing to use. I created a user
> with only connect priveleges only. I call up the site and no folders
> show up which is what I expect. If I log in as the 'dumb' user, the
> folder shows up and he is allowed to go into it. Of course once there
> he can run the report. I have links in the report that allows update,
> and a different report that does not for query only users. I can't seem
> to lock them out of the update folder. Any ideas what is wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Doug Dahlke
> Shields Bag & Printing
> dougd_at_shieldsbag.com

[Quoted] Hallo Doug,

give the user the right to look in the schema which is owner of your update folder.

Reinhard Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 10:44:19 CET