Creating User Groups and Working with Them

To create user groups, use the Groups section on the navigation panel.

User groups are system security subjects used for combining several users under a single account to gain unified control of access permissions of these users. Group members can become users and groups created in Foresight Analytics Platform, domain groups and users.

Specific access permissions can be assigned both to a group and to individual users. In this case the assigned permissions are implemented to all group members (domain and built-in users/groups) and are used as an extension of their personal permissions. Permissions of any system user include their own permissions and permissions of all groups, to which this user belongs.

The system has two built-in groups: ADMINISTRATORS and USERS. The owner of the ADMIN schema is included in the ADMINISTRATORS group by default. Built-in groups have different sets of privileges. For details see the Distributing Privileges section.

NOTE. When roles of the information security administrator and the application administrator are separated, the Mandatory Access Control section is available only for the information security administrator.

The Groups section:

Web application Desktop application

Key features:

To apply the specified settings of the user group:

In the web application click the Save button on the toolbar or on the side panel.

In the desktop application execute one of the operations:

Select the Repository > Apply Security Policy main menu item.
Click the Apply Security Policy button on the toolbar.

NOTE. If section parameters have been changed, an attempt to go to another section of the security manager or to close it displays a request to apply changed settings.