The federation can be triggered by the a user who has the permissions needed for the source and the target registries. The target registry user specified in the configuration file must have the required permission to publish the data on the target registry, otherwise the publish operation will fail. For example, if CentraSite is the target registry, then the target registry user requires the Asset Provider role permission in order to publish the data.

On the target registry, the federated data will be owned by the specified target registry user. For example, if CentraSite is the target registry, and the target registry user is given as usersec1, then usersec1 will be the owner of the federated data on the target registry.

Users other than the owner can access the data on the target registry if they have the required privileges. For example, if CentraSite is the target registry, then a user having the Asset Consumer role permission can access the data.