Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Installation is a straightforward; I will skip the Installation and show the configuration steps.
In this tutorial, I will walk you through the step of creating project in VSS, adding users and assigning rights. Let’s start
Create project
Start Visual SourceSafe Explorer by double clicking on “Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0”
File –> Create Project
Type name for your project (example: Java) then click OK to create the project
On my Visual SourceSafe I have created project as below
Create user
Double clicking on “Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Admin”
Click Users –> “Add User…”
Type “User name” and “Password” then click OK to create the user
Repeat steps above for each user, I have created additional user as below
Rights Assignment
After creating projects and users successfully, now I will show you how to set rights.
You can set “rights by project” or “rights for User” but before that you have to enable Project security
Enable Project security
Double clicking on “Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Admin”
Tools –> Options
Check “Enable Project security”
Choose proper rights for the default user rights
Rights for User
Select user from list (example: Ahmet) and then from Tools –> click “rights Assignment for User…”
Modify user rights on the root folder (example: assign read or none)
Chen click “Add Assignment”
Select project (Highlight) and assign a proper user rights.
You can check the assignment for each user; you can see windows similar to windows below
As you can see in my example, user “Ahmet” has none permission on the root, read on net project and RCA on prototype.
Rights by Project
From Tools –> click “rights by project…”
Select project, on right side it will list all user assignment for this project.
Select the user from list and modify the user rights or click “Add User” to add user for project and set a proper rights
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