Adding user groups and setting user group permissions
About setting group permissions
When you use the LDAP or NTLM methods of authentication, you can only set permissions on a group level. You cannot set permissions for individual users with LDAP or NTLM. When you use the ContentReporter Local authentication, you can set permissions on both the group level and the user level. If you set permissions or security settings on the group level, the permissions or security settings affect all users in the group. For example, if you take away all Administration privileges from the Guest group, no user in the Guest group can have Administration privileges.
Note
Adding and deleting groups to set permissions in ContentReporter for LDAP or NTLM authentication only adds or deletes them from the ContentReporter database. These actions have no effect on your organization's LDAP or NTLM database.
Although you cannot add new Local user groups, you can modify the permissions of the three default Local user groups. To learn more about modifying an existing group's permissions, see Modifying user and user group permissions.
Adding a new LDAP or NTLM user group and configuring its permissions
To add a new LDAP or NTLM user group and configure its permissions, complete the following steps.
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Action
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From a page in ContentReporter, click the Administration tab.
Result:
The Administration page appears.
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Click the Admin button.
Result:
The Cache Group tab appears.
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Click the Authentication tab.
Result:
The Authentication tab appears.
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Select the method of authentication (either LDAP or NTLM) from the Authentication Method drop-down list, and click the User Groups tab.
Result:
The User Groups tab appears.
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Click Add.
Result:
The Add Permissions window appears.
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To modify the default permissions, check or uncheck the permissions boxes as needed.
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To specify the site names upon which the new group can generate reports, click Add.
Result:
The Add Site Name window appears.
Note
By default, group members can generate reports on all sites names. You can configure this new group's permissions in the Add Site Name window so that the group members can only generate reports on the sites names you specify. |
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Enter the site name (such as "www.netapp.com") and click OK.
Result:
You return to the Add Permissions window.
Note
You can also use the * (asterisk) wildcard character in the Name field. For example, you can enter "*.edu" so that the group can only generate reports on sites names with the ".edu" extension. |
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Repeat steps 7 and 8 to specify additional site names.
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When you have set the desired permissions, click OK.
Result:
You return to the User Groups tab.
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To save the changes to the ContentReporter server, click Apply or OK.
Result:
You have successfully added the new user group and configured its permissions.
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