Managing Portal Users and Groups
This chapter describes the portal conventions for user
and group management and provides the steps you take to implement
managed access to portal objects.
Before you begin the task of managing portal groups and users,
develop a plan to manage the administrative roles, groups, and users
for your enterprise portal.
For detailed information on developing a plan, refer to the Deployment Guide for BEA AquaLogic User Interaction G6.
- About UsersPortal users enable you to authenticate the people who access your portal and assign appropriate security for the documents and objects in your portal. Users can be imported from external user repositories, created through the portal, created through invitations, self-registered, or just guests (unauthenticated users).
- About GroupsGroups are sets of users, sets of other groups, or both. Groups enable you to more easily control security because you assign each group different activity rights and access privileges. Groups are created in the portal either by adding them individually as portal objects, or by synchronizing with authentication sources (user repositories such as LDAP or Active Directory).
- About Importing and Authenticating Users with Authentication SourcesAuthentication sources enable you to import users, groups, and group memberships that are already defined in your enterprise in existing user repositories, such as Active Directory or LDAP servers. After users are imported, you can authenticate them with the credentials from those user repositories.
- About Importing User Information with Profile SourcesProfile sources allow you to import user information (such as name, address, or phone number) that is already defined in your enterprise in existing user repositories, such as Active Directory or LDAP servers. The imported user information can be used to populate user profiles or can be passed to content crawlers, remote portlets, or federated searches as user information.
- About InvitationsInvitations allow you to direct potential users to your portal, making it easy for them to create their own user accounts and letting you customize their initial portal experiences with content that is of particular interest to them.
- Auditing User Accounts and ActionsThe portal logs user activities, which allows you to query for actions taken by particular users, actions taken on a particular administrative object, or actions taken within a specified time period.
