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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Limiting access to some team members


For some reason, you may want to limit or completely disable access to a project or certain project data or resources to certain team members. In the twenty first century, identity management and access rights are advancing to more serious levels as companies digitalize more and more of their business processes and overall data, including sensitive material that can be the subject of industrial espionage or simply should not go public. In this recipe, we are going to consider a scenario which disables access to some team members of the Redmine project, or the overall system.

How to do it…

Limiting access to a certain member can be done in several ways and depends upon the scenario that you need to perform.

Locking users

Locking users will disable their Redmine account completely, preventing them from logging in to the system. However, such users may still have access to certain resources, such as code repositories, if they are managed outside Redmine. To...