In the previous chapter, we looked at how we can use MediaDrop to publish our content. Now, we are going to discuss security, which is another important aspect of everyday life. You don't just ask the BeagleBone server to provide your content, but you also ask it to share this content the way you want. Here, you will see how security roles can ease administration tasks and how MediaDrop provides such a mechanism in the administrator console. To be as practical as possible, we will go through two scenarios and analyze them in a concrete manner: home and professional. The home scenario will be a good representation of the use cases that are encountered in everyday life, whereas the professional scenario will deal with use cases from a company where employees need to share media and access e-learning videos.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing the security role
- An everyday use case—a house in Springfield
- Second use case—media management in a company
As we live in an interconnected world, we are exposed to misuses and attacks. As we will see in this chapter, security is of utmost importance irrespective of whether it's a small or large network. Even if role definitions require additional work, you should take the security of your network into consideration. Just like you fasten the seat belt in your car, you'd rather spend this extra time once and forget about it thereafter.
It can be summarized in 3 processes: write down all users who will require access, itemize what resources they will have access to, and then connect the dots between the lists. That's what we are going to see now.