In the previous chapter, we looked at how we can use MediaDrop to publish our content. Now, we are going to discuss security, which is another important aspect of everyday life. You don't just ask the BeagleBone server to provide your content, but you also ask it to share this content the way you want. Here, you will see how security roles can ease administration tasks and how MediaDrop provides such a mechanism in the administrator console. To be as practical as possible, we will go through two scenarios and analyze them in a concrete manner: home and professional. The home scenario will be a good representation of the use cases that are encountered in everyday life, whereas the professional scenario will deal with use cases from a company where employees need to share media and access e-learning videos.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: