You can set up permissions to control access to items stored in a server database accessed via a Model Manager server. You can define these at various levels in The Databases Tree — from coarse-grained permissions set on Repositories to fine-grained permissions set on individual Models and Files.

When you authenticate with a Model Manager server, the server matches the provided username with a user stored in the database. Your user, as well as any groups that you are a member of, are checked whenever you perform a database action that requires authorization. The one exception is if you authenticate using a special root administrator account, in which case authorization checks automatically pass.