Installing
Installing a catalogue server creates or reuses one registry entry per catalogue code on the gateway. What is per person lives elsewhere: their account on a forwarded-auth server, vaulted under their identity, and any per-user setup values a server’s URL is built from. An install answer is a state, not a success flag:
The person’s Portal shows the same states — Installed, Connect,
Reconnect needed, Pending, Needs admin setup — and under My Access
what they hold, with the state of their own account on each.
Open or curated
A gateway’s default access decides what the Portal offers everyone who has no level of their own:
A level set on a person or a group overrides the default. The effective level is
evaluated on every request, so a change lands immediately.
Curated is the setting most organisations end at. It is not a refusal of
everything else — it turns “I need this” into a request with a reason attached,
decided by an admin, and approving a group instead of a person is how the same
request stops arriving.