[DAS] Re: DAS security

[Tony Cox]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Warren, Jonathan wrote:

+>Hi
+>
+>We have ensembl and Dazzle installed locally and have internal IP issues
+>where some groups are not supposed to be allowed to see certain tracks.

There is no built in security model in Ensembl (although this is not to say
Ensembl is built without regard to security!)

Since it has always been an open source/data project we have not engineered a
system for hiding some data form a subset of users.

I think you would have to use either a proxy layer to filter data by IP address
ranges or else you will have to embed some IP-based track switching in the
drawing code.

We'd be very interested to know if you come up with a nice solution!

regards

Tony


+>Where is the best place to change the ensembl code to restrict access to
+>only certain DSNs (if a change in the code is needed?). Is there one
+>place that would stop people using the "Manage Sources" menu and would
+>allow us to restrict the DAS sources currently configured in our
+>HomoSapiens.ini file to certain users?
+>
+>Cheers
+>
+>Jonathan
+>
+>
+>
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