Security Administrator Responsibilities for Users

In Trusted Extensions, the Security Administrator role is responsible for all security attributes of a user or role. The security administrator is responsible for the following tasks:

• Assigning and modifying the security attributes of a user, role, or rights profile

• Creating and modifying rights profiles

• Assigning rights profiles to a user or role

• Assigning privileges to a user, role, or rights profile

• Assigning authorizations to a user, a role, or rights profile

• Removing privileges from a user, role, or rights profile

• Removing authorizations from a user, role, or rights profile

Typically, the Security Administrator role creates rights profiles. However, if a profile needs capabilities that the Security Administrator role cannot grant, then superuser or the Primary Administrator role can create the profile.

Before creating a rights profile, the security administrator needs to analyze whether any of the commands in the new profile need privilege or authorization to be successful. The man pages for individual commands list the privileges and authorizations that might be needed.