Users, Groups, And Roles in Cognos

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Users, Groups, and Roles in Cognos 8

Users, groups, and roles are created for authentication andauthorization purposes.

In Cognos 8, you can use users, groups, and roles created inthird-party authentication providers, and groupsand rolescreated in Cognos 8.

The groups and roles created in Cognos 8 are referred to as

Cognos groups and Cognos roles.


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A user entry is created and maintained in a third-party

authentication provider to uniquely identify a human or acomputer account. You cannot create user entries in Cognos 8.

Information about users, such as first and last names,passwords,IDs, locales, and email addresses, is stored in theproviders.


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Users can become members of groups and roles defined in Cognos 8.

A user can belong to one or more groups or roles.

If users are members of more than one group, their access permissionsare merged

Groups and roles represent collections of users that perform similarfunctions, or have a similar status in an organization. Examples ofgroups are Employees, Developers, or Sales Personnel.

Members of groups can be users and other groups. When users log on,they cannot select a group they want to use for a session. They alwayslog on with all the permissions associated with the groups to whichthey belong.


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Roles in Cognos 8 have a similar function as groups. Membersof roles can be users, groups, and other roles.

Groups and roles represent collections of users who performsimilar functions, or have a similar status in an organization.Members of groups can be users and other groups. Members ofroles can be users, groups, and other roles.


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Structure of Group and Roles

Group

User

Role

User Group RoleGroup


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Create an IBM Cognos Group or Role

Steps

1. In IBM Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner, clickLaunch, IBM Cognos Administration.

2. On the Security tab, click Users, Groups, and Roles.

3. Click the IBM Cognos namespace.

Tip: If you want to delete an IBM Cognos group or role, select

the check box next to it and click the delete button. 4. On the toolbar, click the new group or new role button.

5. In the Specify a name and description page, type a nameand, if you want, a description for the new group or role, andthen select a destination folder and click Next.


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6. If you want to create a group without members, click Finish.

7. If you want to add members to the new group or role, clickAdd and choose how to select the users, groups, or roles: Tochoose from listed entries, click the appropriate namespace, andthen select the check boxes next to the users, groups, or roles

To search for entries, click Search and in the Search stringbox,type the phrase you want


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To type the name of entries you want to add, click Type and type thenames of groups, roles, or users using the following format, where asemicolon (;) separates each entry:namespace/group_name;namespace/role_name;namespace/user_name;

Here is an example: Cognos/Authors;LDAP/scarter;

8. Click the right-arrow button and when the entries you want appearin the Selected entriesbox, click OK.

Tips: To remove entries from the Selected entries list, select them andclick Remove. To select all entries in a list, click the check box in theupper-left corner of the list. To make the user entries visible, clickShow users in the list.

9. Click Finish.


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