Assigning Roles With the User Manager GUI
Roles are assigned through the Advanced Settings of the User Manager GUI.
Note - The Roles attribute is available only for a user, not for a role, because roles can only be assigned to users.
The following figure shows the Advanced Settings dialog box with the Roles security attribute of the user john selected.
How to Assign Roles With the User Manager GUI
- Start the User Manager GUI.
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Select a user in the main User Manager dialog box, then click the Advanced Settings
button.
The Advanced Settings dialog box is displayed.
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Click the Roles attribute on the left side of the dialog box.
A list of the available roles and a list of the roles that are assigned to the current user are displayed.
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To assign a role (or multiple roles) to a user, select the role (or roles) from the Available
Roles list, then click Add.
The added role is displayed in the Assigned Roles list.
- To remove a role from the Assigned Roles list, select the role (or roles) from the list, then click Remove.
- To add or remove all of the roles for the current user, click the Add All or Remove All button.
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To assign a role (or multiple roles) to a user, select the role (or roles) from the Available
Roles list, then click Add.
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Click OK to save the settings.
The changes are not applied until you click Apply or OK in the main User Manager dialog box.