topic Read only user setup for ArcGIS for Server(10.1) SDE instance on SQL Server in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-user-setup-for-arcgis-for-server-10-1/m-p/391458#M22461 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How do I set-up a read only role for a user?</P><P></P><P>I have enterprise Arc GIS for Server 10.1 and an SDE db on SQL Server 2008 R2 and I would like one of my internal users to only be able to read files on the instance. Where do I set these permissions?</P><P></P><P>Or is there a simple work around for granting internal access as read-only?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:56:01 GMT SuzanneKelly 2014-07-28T22:56:01Z Read only user setup for ArcGIS for Server(10.1) SDE instance on SQL Server https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-user-setup-for-arcgis-for-server-10-1/m-p/391458#M22461 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How do I set-up a read only role for a user?</P><P></P><P>I have enterprise Arc GIS for Server 10.1 and an SDE db on SQL Server 2008 R2 and I would like one of my internal users to only be able to read files on the instance. Where do I set these permissions?</P><P></P><P>Or is there a simple work around for granting internal access as read-only?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:56:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-user-setup-for-arcgis-for-server-10-1/m-p/391458#M22461 SuzanneKelly 2014-07-28T22:56:01Z Re: Read only user setup for ArcGIS for Server(10.1) SDE instance on SQL Server https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-user-setup-for-arcgis-for-server-10-1/m-p/391459#M22462 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Enterprise geodatabase users cannot be truly "read-only" because the possibility exists</P><P>that they will need to write to logfiles (which are used for large selection sets).&nbsp; You could</P><P>export the dataset to a file geodatabase, and set permissions appropriately, or you can</P><P>simply<EM> not</EM> grant the user UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE on all tables (allowing them to make</P><P>tables which would not matter, but no more).</P><P></P><P>- V</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:43:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-user-setup-for-arcgis-for-server-10-1/m-p/391459#M22462 VinceAngelo 2014-07-28T23:43:15Z