C.1 Overview

gnats supports granting various levels of access to the gnats databases served by the network daemon, gnatsd.

gnats access can be controlled at these levels:

deny

gnatsd closes the connection

none

no further access until userid and password given

listdb

only listing of available databases is allowed

view

query and view PRs with Confidential=no only

viewconf

query and view PRs with Confidential=yes

edit

full edit access

admin

full admin access

These access levels are used in the following settings:

• overall gnatsd access level
• overall access level set by host name or IP address
• overall access level set by userid and password
• per-database access level set by userid and password