need a way to secure RDL from being edited ?

Hi,
Is there absolutely no way at all that I can employ security on an RDL file
to stop users editing them ?
i.e design a report for a site, ship it, upload it to Rep Services (user on
site has admin right to machine - runs IIS and SQL internally). Is there no
way to stop someone opening the RDL in any RDL aware application and
amending it ?
Thanks for your time.
ScottScott,
You can easily secure the built in Report Manager web interface. Under
security properties for the Home directory, add your Windows login as a
Content Manager, then remove BUILTIN\Administrators. You can assign Browser
rights (and editing rights if you so desire) to the appropriate groups at
either the top level or lower down in the tree.
(I assume these users aren't accessing the RS web service directly from a
.NET application. That can be secured, but is a whole other ball of wax.)
Ted
"scott" wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there absolutely no way at all that I can employ security on an RDL file
> to stop users editing them ?
> i.e design a report for a site, ship it, upload it to Rep Services (user on
> site has admin right to machine - runs IIS and SQL internally). Is there no
> way to stop someone opening the RDL in any RDL aware application and
> amending it ?
> Thanks for your time.
> Scott
>
>|||Hi Ted,
Thanks for reply. I understand what you mean about securing the report and
dirs within the web interface but im more concerned about the actual RDL.
For example:
- I write a report and email it to a client
- they upload it into reporting services for users
- reporting services is running internally on IIS that also runs SQL server
- at least one admin user onsite will have admin rights to
sqlserver/iisserver/reportingservices machine.
If they have an RDL aware app they can amend the RDL. I would like to
secure the RDL from amending because:
1. it takes time and effort to write the RDL and we have a very complicated
db relationship structure.
2. we have to support the RDL files and if they have been amended it could
make it impossible.
Thanks for your time.