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Creating Database Users

This task is a step in Process of Adding Users.

Your database administrator creates database accounts and optionally encrypts user passwords. Depending on your user authentication environment, each user might possess an individual database account, or multiple users might share accounts. If you deploy an external authentication application, then you must configure user authentication including associating each user with a database account.

For NREC, assume the following requirements:

• Set up each user with an individual database account.
• Do not use an external authentication application.

For more information about configuring user authentication, see Siebel Security Guide. For more information about creating users, see Siebel Applications Administration Guide.

To create database users

1. Create a database account for each user listed in NREC Employees and Users:
   • Add the database account on the appropriate database.
   • Add each account to the SSE_ROLE group.
   • For the password, use the same value as the User ID. For example, for Patricia Bosh, use PBOSCH for the User ID and PBOSCH for the password. This technique simplifies development because the developer can enter the same value for the User ID and the password during testing. In an actual deployment, you must set the password according to your security requirements.

     The steps to create a database account depends on the database software that your organization uses. Work with your database administrator to perform these tasks.

Types of Users

A Siebel application recognizes several types of users:

• Employees. Individual internal users. Employees typically possess login privileges.
• Partners. Individual users in partner companies to whom your organization might grant access to data. For more information, see Creating a Partner Organization.
• Users. Internal and external users who possess login privileges. These users might include customers who require access to your company data. A user does not require a position to access views.
• Persons. Includes employees, partners, users, and contacts. Persons might or might not possess login privileges.