CentraSite provides a sophisticated access control concept that allows you to define exactly which users can view and manipulate Assets and Registry Objects in the CentraSite registry and Supporting Documents and Resources in the CentraSite repository. At different levels, access can be granted or denied to single users, groups or roles.

Access is controlled by permissions which define whether a user, a group or a role is allowed to perform a single operation or a set of operations. In the CentraSite Eclipse GUI, three types of permission are distinguished: view, edit or delete a registry object in the CentraSite registry or a folder or file in the CentraSite repository. View and edit permission for a registry object can be granted for its complete definition or it can be restricted to individual Attributes.

In the CentraSite Eclipse GUI, you can display the security settings on the Permissions in the Details Editor. To define users, groups, roles and permissions, use the CentraSite Control (Web interface).