Adding Collaborators

Navigate to the project overview page.

Click Team to open the Collaborators page.

Search for collaborators by either name or email address and click Add.

For a project created under your personal account, anyone who belongs to your organization can be added as a collaborator. For a project created under a team account, you can only add collaborators that already belong to the team. If you want to work on a project that requires collaborators from different teams, create a new team with the required members, and then create a project under that account. If your project was created from a Git repository, each collaborator must create the project from the same central Git repository.

You can grant project collaborators one of three levels of access:

Viewer - Read-only access to code, data, and results.
Operator - Read-only access to code, data, and results. Additionally, Operators can start and stop existing jobs in the projects that they have access to.
Contributor - Can view, edit, create, and delete files and environmental variables, run sessions/experiments/jobs/models and execute code in running jobs. Additionally, Contributors can set the default engine for the project.
Admin - Has complete access to all aspects of the project. This includes the ability to add new collaborators, and delete the entire project.

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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.

For more information on collaborating effectively, see Collaborating on Projects with Cloudera Data Science Workbench.