Assigning users to administrator roles

Before you begin

The following steps are needed to assign users to administrative roles.

Why and when to perform this task

In the administrative console, expand the System Administration folder and click Console Users or Console Groups.

Steps for this task

  1. To add a user or a group, click Add on the Console users or Console groups panel.
  2. To add a new administrative user, enter a user identity in the User field, highlight Administrator, and click OK. If there is no validation error, the specified user is displayed with the assigned security role.
  3. To add a new administrative group, either enter a group name in the Specify group field or select EVERYONE or ALL AUTHENTICATED from the Select from special subject menu, and click OK. If no validation error exists, the specified group or special subject displays with the assigned security role.
  4. To remove a user or group assignment, click Remove on the Console Users or the Console Groups panel. On the Console Users or the Console Groups panel, select the check box of the user or group to remove and click OK.
  5. To manage the set of users or groups to display, expand the filter folder on the right panel and modify the filter. For example, setting the filter to user* only displays users with the user prefix.
  6. After the modifications are complete, click Save to save the mappings.
  7. Restart the server for changes to take effect.

What to do next

The task of assigning users and groups to administrative roles is performed to identify users for performing WebSphere Application Server administrative functions. There are four roles: administrator, configurator, operator and monitor. Users and groups assigned to the administrator role can perform all administrative operations and can set up both J2EE role-based and Java 2 security policy. Users assigned to the configurator role can perform all day-to-day configuration tasks including installing and uninstalling applications, assigning users and groups to role mapping for applications, setting run-as configurations, setting up Java 2 security permissions for applications, and customizing Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 (CSIv2), Security Authentication Service (SAS), and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configurations. Users assigned to the operator role can view the WebSphere Application Server configuration and its current state, but also can change the run-time state such as stopping and starting services. Users assigned the monitor state can view the WebSphere Application server configuration and its current state only.

Before you assign users to administrative roles (administrator, configurator, operator, and monitor), you must set up your user registry, which can be LDAP, local OS, or a custom registry. You can set up your user registries without enabling security. Once you assign users to administrative roles, you must restart the server for the new roles to take effect. However, the administrative resources are not protected until you enable security.


Related concepts
Role-based authorization
AccessControlException
Administrative console and naming service authorization
Related tasks
Assigning users and groups to roles
Assigning users to RunAs roles
Related reference
Console users settings and CORBA naming service user settings
Console groups and CORBA naming service groups



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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