User Groups

A user group is a user definable object that is used to categorize users and define permissions. By carefully planning out the names for user groups and which permissions to grant to each group, you can easily manage individual user permissions by making them part of one or more groups. User groups can include one or more individual users. User groups can also include one or more user groups. This a user group can be a super set of all the user groups included in its member list.

The User Group object has the following attributes.

User Group

A user definable text string that names the user group object.

Description

An optional user defined text string that describes the user group object. This attribute is not used by the provisioning software but can provide meaningful information to the user.

Member of Group. . .

Allows the user to add users and/or user groups to the currently selected user group. This section of the user group page has two pull down menus that all the user to select and which user(s) or which user group(s) to add this the currently selected user group.

Current Member Users

Lists the users that are a member of the currently selected user group.

Permissions of Member Users

Lists the permission granted to the members that are part of the currently selected user group.