Understand Publisher Users, Roles, and Permissions
A user is assigned one or multiple roles.
A role can grant any or all of the following:
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Privileges to use functionality
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Permissions to perform actions on catalog objects
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Access to data sources
You can create a hierarchy of roles by assigning roles to other roles. In this way the privileges and permissions of multiple roles can roll up to higher level roles. The figure below shows an example of the hierarchy structure of User, Role, and Folder.
Options for Configuring Users and Roles
There're three options for setting up users and roles.
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Set up users and roles in the Publisher Security Center
For this option, follow the instructions in this section.
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Configure Publisher with your LDAP server
For this option, see Configure Publisher to Use an LDAP Provider for Authentication and Authorization.
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Set up users and roles in a supported Oracle security model. For this option, see Integrate with Other Oracle Security Models.