The first task to perform in new WAassistant tracker is to create users. WAassistant tracker users are classified into several roles, each of which has its own view of the tracker and different access rights. The following user roles are defined in WAassistant:
The roles are overlapping in WAassistant. For instance, Supervisors have also all the permissions of Testers and Anonymous users.
During WAassistant tracker setup in Roundup two users are automatically created: admin (with the password given during the setup process) which is the system administrator power user, and anonymous which represents a user who is not logged in. Note you can't log in as anonymous explicitly, you become anonymous automatically each time you log out or before you log in.
So the first step which should be done in new WAassistant tracker is
to log in as admin and create new users. At least one
Supervisor user must be created before Create Users checkpoint
can be set to done
.
The security mechanism used in WAassistant is the standard Roundup one. If you care about security of your data, you may want to use standard Web server security means to protect and regulate access to the tracker.