Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Administration

Setting Up Basic Security Options

The Progress Dynamics security feature is powerful and flexible. It lets you set security on many types of objects and levels, such as objects, menus, fields, data ranges, actions, and data. You can set up security for specific users or all users, specific companies or all companies, and any combination of the above. In addition to this, you can define restrictions globally or for a specific product module, for a specific object, or for an instance of an object. Your application’s security policy can be as simple or as complex as you choose.

This chapter provides an overview of security and describes the basic options for managing and securing your Progress Dynamics installation. It includes the following sections:

Setting global security and management options
Choosing a security model: grant versus revoke
Setting up user authentication
Defining login companies
Defining security groups
Creating and maintaining users

For information on security allocations, action security, field security, and data range security, see the chapter on defining security in OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Basic Development .