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>5.5. Groups and Group Security</H1
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>Groups allow the administrator
to isolate bugs or products that should only be seen by certain people.
The association between products and groups is controlled from
the product edit page under <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Edit Group Controls."</SPAN
>
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> If the makeproductgroups param is on, a new group will be automatically
created for every new product.
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> On the product edit page, there is a page to edit the
<SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Group Controls"</SPAN
>
for a product and determine which groups are applicable, default,
and mandatory for each product as well as controlling entry
for each product and being able to set bugs in a product to be
totally read-only unless some group restrictions are met.
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> For each group, it is possible to specify if membership in that
group is...
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> required for bug entry,
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> Not applicable to this product(NA),
a possible restriction for a member of the
group to place on a bug in this product(Shown),
a default restriction for a member of the
group to place on a bug in this product(Default),
or a mandatory restriction to be placed on bugs
in this product(Mandatory).
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> Not applicable by non-members to this product(NA),
a possible restriction for a non-member of the
group to place on a bug in this product(Shown),
a default restriction for a non-member of the
group to place on a bug in this product(Default),
or a mandatory restriction to be placed on bugs
in this product when entered by a non-member(Mandatory).
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> required in order to make <EM
>any</EM
> change
to bugs in this product <EM
>including comments.</EM
>
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>To create Groups:</P
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>Select the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"groups"</SPAN
>
link in the footer.</P
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>Take a moment to understand the instructions on the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Edit
Groups"</SPAN
> screen, then select the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Add Group"</SPAN
> link.</P
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>Fill out the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Group"</SPAN
>, <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Description"</SPAN
>,
and <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"User RegExp"</SPAN
> fields.
<SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"User RegExp"</SPAN
> allows you to automatically
place all users who fulfill the Regular Expression into the new group.
When you have finished, click <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Add"</SPAN
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>The User Regexp is a perl regexp and, if not anchored, will match
any part of an address. So, if you do not want to grant access
into 'mycompany.com' to 'badperson@mycompany.com.hacker.net', use
'@mycompany\.com$' as the regexp.</P
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>After you add your new group, edit the new group. On the
edit page, you can specify other groups that should be included
in this group and which groups should be permitted to add and delete
users from this group.</P
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> Note that group permissions are such that you need to be a member
of <EM
>all</EM
> the groups a bug is in, for whatever
reason, to see that bug. Similarly, you must be a member
of <EM
>all</EM
> of the entry groups for a product
to add bugs to a product and you must be a member
of <EM
>all</EM
> of the canedit groups for a product
in order to make <EM
>any</EM
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product.
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