Managing membership to a group

Managing group membership allows you to alter the composition of an existing group. You can allow a new user to inherit an existing group’s privileges by adding the user to the group. You can also take away a user’s ability to use a group’s privileges by deleting the user from the group.

To add a user to a group

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Groups icon.

2. Click a group in the Group tree.

3. Click the Member property sheet.

4. In the Non-members of Group section, click a user.

5. Click the Add Selected Members button.

To remove a user from a group

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Groups icon.

2. Click the group you wish to delete.

3. Click the Members property sheet.

4. In the Groups Members section, click a user.

5. Click the Remove Selected Members button.

Displaying group resources

When you add a user to a group, you give that user access to the resources of the group. The group’s Resources property sheet displays all of the resources available to the members of a group.

You cannot modify the information in the Resources property sheet. You can, however, change the order of the information by clicking the heading of any column. For example, clicking the heading Licenses displays the information alphabetically by license.

The Resources property sheet contains the following columns:

nov00000.gif T contains the resource’s token or icon

nov00000.gif Resource contains the name of the resource

nov00000.gif Read shows whether or not the user has read permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Write shows whether or not the user has write permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Exec shows whether or not the user has execute permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Del shows whether or not the user has delete permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Creat shows whether or not the user has create permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Conn shows whether or not the user has connect permission to the resource

nov00000.gif Licenses shows the number of user licenses available for the resource

Tips

nov00000.gif After you make changes on the property sheet, you must click either the Reset button or the Apply button to move to another resource. Reset cancels the changes you made, while Apply saves the changes.

nov00000.gif To select multiple users, hold down Shift and select the desired users with the mouse.

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