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Security in Islandora is the result of combining Drupal’s Acess Access Control infrastructure (Drupal Roles and Permissions) with Fedora’s security framework. Fedora’s framework offers a great deal of flexibility and customization. Additional information about Fedora security is available at the FedoraCommons wiki (see our Selected Reading Section). This section will cover the basics of Drupal security, and describe the way that Islandora allows for Fedora security to interact with Drupal security.
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Under “User Management” in Drupal’s administration screen you can access “permissions.” Drupal describes permissions as “granted” to separate roles. Any module installed will generally make additional types of permissions available. Islandora is no different from other modules, and in order to effectively use Islandora, you will want to “grant” permissions to roles. Users are assigned roles and can have multiple, with the user possessing all the permissions that their various roles do. Here are the permissions that the Islandora module makes available:
Below are what these permissions mean, please note that some have logical dependencies on each other:
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