Assigning Security Roles
Security roles in the iGrafx Platform provide a way to manage permissions over servers, repositories, and repository objects (items) by users and groups of users. There are three types of security roles:
Security roles in the iGrafx Platform provide a way to manage permissions over servers, repositories, and repository objects (items) by users and groups of users. There are three types of security roles:
There are two main group types within Microsoft Active Directory
The main functionality of the AD import in iGrafx Origins is the correct setting and filtering of attributes. These attributes compose the hierarchy of the AD and are arranged differently in every AD.
To access the Repository Configuration area, Cycle Groups page you must be assigned a Repository Role granting Manage Repository permission. See for more information.
In the User Management pages, you can add and edit users, create groups and manage the users within them, and import and sync users from existing database user directories. The following sections describe these tasks and the pages that enable them.
You want to import users and groups from Active Directory and want to develop and test your own LDAP query.
By creating a set of groups that have increasing levels of permissions over servers, repositories, or object tree items, you can more easily manage the mapping of individual users to those various roles by adding or removing them from the appropriate groups. Doing so will save you from having to track which users have been assigned what roles; instead, you can check to see whether they are in our out of a particular group to see if they have the level of permissions associated with the roles assigned to that group.