Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Administration

Setting up user authentication

User authentication establishes the requirements for users to login and run your application. You generally set up user authentication by registering and maintaining users in the gsm_user table (entity mnemonic, GSMUS). Registering a user includes specifying all the security information that is associated with a user of your application, including such items as login name, password, default login company, and user category.

A user always belongs to some user category (if user categories are defined) and can be a default member of a login company. You must create any user categories and login companies before you use them to register a user. Both of these settings originate from values stored in corresponding Repository tables, as described in this section.

You can also define user profiles by specifying certain types of data to be associated with users of your application in some way. While not strictly a security feature, user profile data are part of the criteria that define a Progress Dynamics user. Thus, this section describes user profile data as part of the user definition process.

When you register users of your application, you might need to perform some or all of these tasks:

Define user profile data types that your application can use to associate certain session settings with each user.
Define user categories.
Define companies.
Define security groups.
Create and maintain users.

The rest of this section describes these tasks.