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Security is becoming increasingly important. As PMA.core has been deployed in increasingly complex scenarios over the years, its security features have evolved, too.
Security pertaining to root-directories is situated at two levels:
The following paragraphs elaborate on these respective subjects:
Public root directories can be accesses by anybody who is a registered user in the PMA.core user repository.
Private root directories are only accessible by those who have been explicitly given access to be allowed to access the folder through the directory's access control list.
As you have more users and more root-directories, it becomes undesirable that everybody is allow to see everything.
Therefore, root-directories can be marked “public” or “private”:
Once marked private, you can select what users are allowed to see the content of the root directory, and which ones aren't: Do this by pressing the “Edit access control list” link after you selected the “private” option: