Security bypass in Firefox

Question

Hi all, some advice / explanation would be useful:
I have set up a report server with a few users to access and am currently in the stage of building up it's security.
All users have varying permissions and in IE everything seems good, i have a folder with shared datasets as exemplaries that can be accessed and viewed/opened in Report Builder by my 'SUser' Role, but it then blocks the user from making the changes and hence
overwriting the original with the intention of the 'SUser' making this Dataset their own and saving it to their own my reports section.
In IE this is fine; I open the file, attempt to save it and i'm presented with an error - as expected.
However in firefox; I open the File , attempt to save it and it overwrites the existing file - no error displayed.
Could you advise if this is a fundamental limitation of SSRS in Firefox or something else is happening with the authentication methods?
Many thanks
BigFudge

Answer 1

Hi BigFudge,
Per my understanding that you put the shared datasets in the "My Reports" Folders and only the "SUser" role have the permission to use it, other user who haven't grant any permission to this folder will not able to use the shared dataset
in report builder, now the issue is that the permission setting works fine in IE but not in firefox, right?
Gernerally, user permission will work fine ignore what type of the broswer you are using. I have tried to understand your issue and tested on my local environment, but still have some question. Could you please give more details information accroding to
the question below:
Please provide the permission setting of all the roles.
You have mentioned that when one "SUser" role are using the shared dataset and other user will can't do any action to this dataset, Is that mean other user in the "SUser" group or other user who don't grant any permission will not able
to do any action to this dataset, did you also put the shared datasource to this folder?
Please find details information about the limitation support of browser and permission of "My Report":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511(v=sql.105).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255206.aspx
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
Regards
Vicky Liu
Vicky Liu
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