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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

Report Server Admin Security issue

I have posted this in the Ideas section as well incase it is a bug, but i want to ask it here as well. If that is no allowed, ill remove this one.   I am running an instance of Power Bi Report serv...
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d_gosbell's avatar
d_gosbell
Super User
6 years ago

Was the user already logged in when you removed them from the admin group? A lot of the pages in the PBIRS portal are cached. If I had the portal open as a test admin user, then removed that user from the admin role I could still see site settings, but as soon as I refreshed my browser page this option dissappeared (with the May 2019 release). I could get to the General and Branding pages by typing in the URL, but could not make any changes. My hope is that any attempt to save changes should be blocked on the server.

 

As soon as I attempt to directly access the security page with a non-admin using the May 2019 release I get the dialog on the right 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the reply. I tried your scenario in the version im running i am able to use the url to navigate to branding and general admin pages. It looks like this was resolved in the may release

  • sheetalshettiga's avatar
    sheetalshettiga
    Helper IV
    6 years ago

    hello all,

    Even though i do not assign any role to particular user of same domain in security they can login and view my reports in report server .How can I deal with such situation in security role.please help me with this.