You can assign users and groups to administrative roles
to identify users who can perform WebSphere® Application
Server administrative functions.
Before you begin
Administrative roles enable you to control access to WebSphere Application Server administrative
functions. Refer to the descriptions of these roles in Administrative
roles.
- Before you assign users to administrative roles, you must set
up your user registry. For information on the supported registry types,
see Selecting a registry or repository.
- The following steps are needed to assign users to administrative
roles.
About this task
You use the administrative console
to assign users and groups to administrative roles and to identify
users who can perform WebSphere Application Server
administrative functions. In the administrative console,
Procedure
- Click Users and Groups. Click either Administrative
User Roles or Administrative Group Roles.
- To add a user or a group, click Add on the Console
users or Console groups panel.
- To add a new administrator user, follow the instructions
on the page to specify a user, and select the Administrator role.
Once the user is added to the Mapped to role list, click OK.
The specified user is mapped to the security role.
- To add a new administrative group, follow the instructions
on the page to specify either a group name or a Special subject, highlight
the Administrator role, and click OK. The
specified group or special subject is mapped to the security role.
- 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.
- To manage the set of users or groups to display, click Show
filter function on the User Roles or Group Roles panel. In the Search
term(s) box, type a value, then click Go. For example,
user* displays only users with the user prefix.
- After the modifications are complete, click Save to
save the mappings.
- Restart the application server for changes to take effect.