On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Sachith Withana <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks a lot Saminda, > > So a user will have access to multiple shared spaces ( for each usergroup) > and to his/her own private space. > > In the CIPRES usecase, how would you allow access to shared spaces in > terms of the user experience? > having one shared Space for the user and populate with all the experiments > shared with the user or > having multiple shared spaces categorized by the usergroup? > Unfortunately Airavata is still at its infant stage when managing users and its groups. We do have the published space (shared among users in a gateway) and user private space. We need to figure-out a good design and architecture for managing user groups. But IMO this is more of a gateway side feature rather than a middleware-resource-management goal. > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm not an expert on the Amber usecase, but I suppose it is possible to >> have multiple user groups for a single usecase. It could be to have a >> shared space of data hidden from each user group. It could be to author >> access/privilledges to the portal or resources depending on the user group. >> >> I would assume the mapping of user to usergroups would be many to one >> mapping. Unlike user roles I don't think it is sensible to have users being >> mapped to multiple groups (there is a whole area of security to consider >> here). >> >> (I do have to note that usergroup IMO is not a must concept for a science >> gateway) >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Sachith Withana <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Can someone explain to me the mapping of users to groups in a Science >>> Gateway? ( This is regarding the Amber usecase). >>> >>> Can there be multiple user groups in a gateway portal when it comes to >>> just one usecase? >>> ex: If we have only one usecase for the portal ( such as Amber) >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Sachith Withana >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Thanks, > Sachith Withana > >
