Overview of Users and Groups

The WebLogic Administration Portal supports management of two primary types of users: portal administrators and portal end users (visitors). An administrator uses the WebLogic Administration Portal to manage portal content and portal users, and to build portals with existing portal resources. A visitor is an end user of the portals assembled by portal administrators.

For more information about user management, see the User Management Guide on BEA's edocs page.

As an administrator of users, you can combine end users into user groups to simplify management and administration. Groups allow you to create logical groupings of users for ease of organization, more easily finding users, and for setting up Delegated Administration and Visitor Entitlements. The ability to group users allows you to deal with large sets of users at one time.

User properties, such as address, phone number, social security number, and so on, can be used in setting up personalization.

Multiple Authentication Providers

WebLogic Portal lets you access more than one user database (authentication provider), letting you select users and groups from multiple databases. For information on using more than one authentication provider, see Using Multiple Authentication Providers with WebLogic Portal.