OpenEdge Development:<br />Progress Dynamics Administration Linking users and security groups

Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Administration

Linking users and security groups

There are two ways to link users and security groups:

You can create or update a group and then specify all users that belong to that group.

You can create or update a user and then specify all the groups to which that user belongs.

Your first step might be to review the security setup as it exists. When setting up user security, you can use the Security Enquiry tool to determine what security is going to be applied to each user.

You can use this tool to determine where user security needs to override group security and only allocate the necessary security allocations to the user. You can query exactly what security would be applicable to a user per login company. Furthermore, you can query all security set up against each object for each security type. For more information on using the Security Enquiry tool, see OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Basic Development .

To access the Security Enquiry tool:

From the Security Control window, expand the Security Control node.

Expand the Security Enquiry node.

Choose the Security Groups subnode, as shown:

To allocate a specific user to one or more groups:

In the Security Control window, expand the Security Maintenance node, then choose the Users node.

Select a user in the browse of the User Maintenance window in the right frame, then choose the Allocated to Groups tab, as shown:

Use the buttons in the toolbar of the Allocated to Groups tab folder to add or modify the groups linked to the current user.

Choose Save to save any changes you make.

To identify all of the users in a specific security group:

In the Security Control window, expand the Security Maintenance node, then choose the Groups node.

Select a group in the browse of the User Maintenance window, then choose the User Allocation tab, as shown:

Use the buttons in the toolbar of the User Allocation tab folder to add or modify the users or groups linked to the current group.

Choose Save to save any changes you make.