In an AzDO project, I want to deny the group "all", that consists of 100 members, the right to contribute to the master branch.
However, 3 developers, that are also members of "all", should be allowed to contribute.
Unfortunately it seems "deny" always trumps "allow", so it seems I would have to create an extra 97 member group "all minus master contributors".
Creating such a group would be a royal pain just for a single project, but such groups would have to be created for every project in the organization. (The "all" group, in contrast, is managed organization-wide and can be shared between all projects)
Is there an easy way to accomplish what I want?
You can't override the "Deny" permissions. but, if they have "Not set" permissions they will not be able to push to the master, they should have "Allow" for this.
But, if you want to prevent users from push to master, the best way is to use Branch Policies instead of using the deny permission.
For the 3 users you want to allow push to master you can give Bypass policies when pushing permissions.
Steps:
open org setting->Permissions->create group A and add 100 members.
Open project setting->click the tab permission(All repo permission)-> add the group A and set the permission Contribute to Deny.
Open the repo->click the tab permission(one repo permission)->enter the user account(3 users) and change their personal permission Contribute to allow.
Then the 3 users can update the repo
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we have a security qa group in office 365.
Members of this group are not allowed to access source code.
In vsts (Azure devops), we have denied access to the source code to this QA group ( denied on all repositories)
Now, we have 1 user that is going to join the dev team.
He is still member of the QA group but he also needs access to the source code.
We are unable to give him permissions.
As soon as we overwrite the permissions (contribute = Allow), when we leave and come back, contribute systematically comes back to deny.
The QA group coming from Office 365 has permissions on several resources and currently it is impossible to remove the user from this group.
How do we prevent access to source code to this group and allow 1 user in this group to access the code?
Note: We tried to play the inheritance flag on the user and on the group (all possible configuration) and this did not work
To be more precise: we want the QA team to have access to the test plan, board and overview and not the repos or the pipelines and one member of this group now needs access to the source code.
Set approval process to delete any project/repos of Azure DevOps(ADO).
I have multiple owners in my private Azure Devops. From the docs it appears that any individual owner/users can go rogue and delete the entire Azure project/repo from existence though i know it can be restore easily in Azure devops within 28 days, But still I'd like to prevent that from happening.
Is there any way to set up Azure Devops user/group permissions such that deleting the repo requires the approval of its owners ? Kindly suggest if I missed the Azure docs if this feature is already there ?
Making myself the sole owner is not a viable solution, as I want to prevent myself (or an unauthorised user of my account) from having this power, too. So need to implement the approval process for this.
From below SS you can see it is not expecting any approval while deleting the whole project.
I'm afraid there is no such feature to approve delete request. However, you can set the delete permission of users to deny.
Project:
If you want to delete a project, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group or have the Delete team project permission set to Allow.
You can set this permission to deny if you don’t want other users to delete the project. Members in Project Administrators Group can manage permissions or groups at the project level and their delete project permission is allow by default.
Repositories:
You can set the delete repository permission of users to deny.
In addition, for most groups and almost all permissions, Deny overrides Allow. For members of the Project Collection Administrators or Team Foundation Administrators groups, Deny doesn't trump Allow.
Unfortunately, you read correctly. There isn't a way to require approval prior to repo deletion.
However, what you can do is create a group of users that you would want to be prevented from deleting repos and update the repo permissions to include an explicit deny for the "Delete Repository" permission:
In Azure DevOps, I'm trying to add a user as required reviewer on a PR, but I get this message:
The reviewer 'reviewer_name' does not have permission to view this pull request
I can see that they are a contributor, and have the same repo permissions as I do
What can I check to ensure they have the correct permissions set up?
I can see that they are a contributor, and have the same repo permissions as I do
According to your description, these users should only have stakeholder access.
Actually, to contribute a pull request you need be qualified with two things: Permission , Access Level.
User with Stakeholder access level, he will not be able to use Azure Repos for your private project.
Of cause he is also not able to view any pull request in Azure Repos.
You could check this info from Organization Setting-- Users--Access Level
For more detail concept you could refer our official link: Get started as a Stakeholder
Please change the user access level to Basic and above, then this user should be able to see and access these repos and view pull request.
Note: To change access level, you must have Project Collection Administrator or organization Owner permissions in Azure DevOps.
The Permissions required to perform Pull Request must be Contribute/Contribute to Pull requests, asfound at: Set Repository Permissions
This can be set > Project Settings > Repository > Target Group > Access Control Summary screen.
Check the permissions at the repo level, since it has to set in the Repo.
In my case it was because that particular user was set as a Stakeholder at the Organisation Level
Even though they were a project administrator, I had to upgrde their organisation permissions to Basic access
I'am recently installed Azure DevOps Server 2019 in on-premises server.
However, i'am so confused : How i can set the security and the user permission in the server, such as : Deny user to view author project in the same collection , create custom group not in the azure devops default groups ...
I ask for idea to implement that
Thank you
According to Azure DevOps permission setting, most groups and almost all permissions, Deny trumps Allow. If a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to Deny, that user will not be able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to Allow.
Deny user to view author project in the same collection.
Assume you were talking about team project. In your scenario, the simplest way is not add that user to your team project. People without team project collection admin permission will not be able to see those projects which they are not added in.
If you already add users in the team project and want the user not be able to see some info such as repo/build/work items in the project .
You need to evidently deny those users for viewing some project repositories/builds/ work items.
As how to create group, you could directly click New Group in the right top corner of the page from Project Settings-- Permission
More details about how are permissions and groups defined, suggest you go through our official doc here-- About permissions and groups
Besides, you could also manage user permission with the help of command line. The tfssecurity command line tool allows us to manage permissions for Azure DevOps groups and users. We could use it in a PowerShell script to grant access to projects that already exists.
Is there a way to restrict code reviews being assigned to a "Service account" in in Azure DEVOPS?
There's no direct permission node can make you achieve the code review restrict.
But since the prerequisite for Code review is that you must have Read Repos files permissions, you can make use of one work around: restrict its Read permission of repos.
To better manage the service accounts you mentioned, you can add them into one group firstly. (Here name it Service group)
Then go Project setting -> Repositories, click on the Git repositories or one specified repos (this depend on which repos's code review you want to restrict).
Search and add the Service group, and then set its Read permission as Deny.