[atlas] Two users managing one probe

Hi all,

On 12/3/12 1:19 PM, Matthäus Wander wrote:
> * Wilfried Woeber [2012-11-30 14:32]:
>> Tobias Offermann wrote:
>>> RIPE told me to register a separate ("shared")
>>> group account
>> Is there any guidance available somewhere how to do that? TIA!
> 
> There's a related FAQ entry: 'Can I transfer a probe to a new host?'
> https://atlas.ripe.net/faq

I love it when the users are helping each other :)

To answer other questions:

we heard you - you would like to have a more granular management of the 
probe management.

What we are planning to do is:

- short term: before end of January, we will enable "sharing" of your 
probe within your LIR -- that is how the "group" will be defined in this 
first step.

Good thing is that we can implement this easily & fast, since we have 
the "Single Sign On" and we know what are the people in the same LIR.

Drawback is that it will be available only for the members of RIPE NCC 
-- but on the other hand, we are committed to releasing more "membership 
benefits" within RIPE Atlas.

- in the first half of next year we will work on the more generic "group 
access control management"

In order to implement all that, the developers need some more detailed 
feature requests.

I will document what we have received till now, and share it with you 
for comments.

For now, let me try to address current questions:

*"I would like to give my co-worker full access to a probe"*

- if you want to share the results of measurements (Read-only),
you can make the probe public
- if you want your colleague to be able to configure the probe, that we 
do not have yet, and it could be part of "LIR group access"

*"register a separate ("shared") group account and let them change the 
probe association to that account."*

- this is a work-around, and might create additional problems: if you 
would like to use the "LIR group access" feature, you need to add this 
"shared" account to the list of LIR contacts.

*sharing credits*

- it is very easy to transfer credits from one user to another

I hope this helps,
and thank you for your feedback and interest in RIPE Atlas.

Cheers,
Vesna