Assigning roles to users and groups

When you assign roles to users and groups, you grant access rights and privileges to them.

About this task

IBM® Navigator Console includes a set of predefined roles. Each role defines a set of actions that the user can perform. To view a role description, select the information icon next to the role name or see Roles and associated privileges for users of IBM Watson Curator.

Important: Assign roles to groups rather than to individual users. This practice ensures that you can add and delete users from the defined user groups without impacting the security configuration.

Procedure

Assign roles to users and groups:

  1. From the Security Configuration tab, click Users, Groups and Roles > Roles. The list to the left either shows defined users or groups, depending on the selection in the drop-down list. The list to the right displays which roles are assigned to the user or group that is selected in the list to the left.
  2. Search for the users or groups to which you want to assign roles by specifying your search criterion in the entry fields above the Users Or Groups list.
  3. Select one or more groups or users from the list.
  4. Select one or multiple roles from the list to the right that you want to assign to the selected users or groups, and select the check box in the Explicit column.
    Tip: The Inherited column indicates which roles were inherited from the parent group.
  5. Click Save.