Project Collaborators

If you want to work closely with trusted colleagues on a particular project, you can add them to the project as collaborators.

For instructions, see Adding Collaborators.

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Collaborating Securely on Projects

Before adding project collaborators, you must remember that assigning the Contributor or Admin role to a project collaborator is the same as giving them write access to your data in CDH. This is because project contributors and project administrators have write access to all your project code (including any library code that you might not be actively inspecting). For example, a contributor/admin could modify project file(s) to insert code that deletes some data on the CDH cluster. The next time you launch a session and run the same code, it will appear as though you deleted the data yourself.

Additionally, project collaborators also have access to all actively running sessions and jobs. This means that a malicious user can easily impersonate you by accessing one of your active sessions. Therefore, it is extremely important to restrict project access to trusted collaborators only. Note that Cloudera Data Science Workbench 1.4.3 introduces a new feature that allows site administrators to restrict this ability by allowing only session creators to execute commands within their own active sessions. For details, see Restricting Access to Active Sessions.

For these reasons, Cloudera recommends using Git to collaborate securely on shared projects. This will also help avoid file modification conflicts when your team is working on more elaborate projects.