MEGA Administration (Web) : Managing Users : Introduction to User Management : Person Login Properties
   
Person Login Properties
To:
create the login of a person, see "Creating Users" or "Creating the Login of a Person".
consult login characteristics, see "Viewing Login Characteristics".
configure the login of a person, see or "Configuring the Login of a Person".
User code
The User Code is the short identifier (upper case, maximum length 6 characters) of the user that serves as the basis for private workspace naming.
This code is defined automatically on user creation. To ensure data consistency, it should not be modified.
E.g.: PDD
Login Holder
The login holder is the person or person group associated with the login.
E.g.: DURAND Pierre
Repository access definition mode
Repository access of a user is defined by the following access modes:
Implicit access:
By default, the user has read/write access to all repositories, but access can be limited or prohibited.
*When a repository is added in the site, by default it can be accessed by the user.
For more details on how to restrict user repository access rights, see "Configuring the Login of a Person" and "Configuring a Profile".
Explicit access:
By default, the user cannot access repositories, but access can be authorized. In this case, you must at least define and authorize access to a repository.
*When a repository is added in the site, by default it cannot be accessed by the user.
For more details on how to add user repository access rights, see "Configuring the Login of a Person" and "Configuring a Profile".
*This mode is useful to install a confidentiality policy; it is preferable to first create users with explicit repository access, then progressively define their rights and the information they can access.
At creation of a user, default access to repositories is as defined in environment and site options (Options/Repository) via the Repository default access mode option.
*Repository access default mode is Implicit Access, to modify this value see "Managing Options", page 199.
User repository access rights
At creation, a user can access all repositories by default.
User access rights to environment repositories can be restricted by the administrator. He can:
authorize repository update (Read/Write)
prohibit repository update (Read-only)
prohibit repository access (Not accessible)
*See "Restricting User Repository Access Rights".
*If a user already has repository access rights restricted by those defined on his/her profile, only the restricted access rights will be defined on the profile.
*For more details, see "Configuring a Profile".
Status (Login)
Login status can be used to make a user inactive (value: Inactive). The user no longer has access to repositories, but trace of his/her actions is retained. The user can be easily reactivated (value: Active).
*When you delete a user from the repository, the commands connected to this user become orphans and you lose part of the history saved in logs. With Inactive status, the user no longer has access to repositories, but the history of commands connected to the user is kept in logs.
Products accessible on the license (Command Line)
The Command Line field enables restriction of access of a user or profile to available products.
*For more details, see "Products accessible on the license (Command Line)".
*If a user is connected to a profile and the user and profile each have access to products restricted by the Command Line attribute, the products accessible to the user are at the intersection of the values of the Command Line attribute of the user and profile.
Authentication mode
Default value of the Authentication Mode parameter on the user login is inherited at user creation from the Authentication Mode option defined in the options of the environment (Options/Installation/User Management).
*See "Defining Default Authentication Mode".
Authentication mode of a user is by checking the user password. Available authentication modes are:
MEGA
Passwords are managed and stored in the MEGA repository.
This is default authentication mode.
*For more details, see "Authentication in MEGA".
Windows
Passwords are managed and stored in Windows. This allows the user connected to Windows to be recognized automatically when he/she is connected to MEGA (Windows Front-End), not requiring entry of his/her password.
*Attention: to connect to a MEGA (Web Front-End) application, the user must enter his/her password.
The list of users in your MEGA environment is automatically synchronized with the list of users defined in your Windows network.
*For more details, see "Windows Authentication".
LDAP
Passwords are managed and stored in the LDAP server of the enterprise. The directory configuration is stored in options.
The MEGA user is authenticated at LDAP server level.
*For more details, see "LDAP Authentication".
Custom
This authentication is managed by an external authentication module or SSO. This authentication mode is specific to Web connection to Web applications.
*See the technical article Web connection overloading and configuration EN .
Windows identifier
*This field only appears when the Authentication Mode is "Windows", see "Authentication mode".
The Windows Identifier of a user enables connection of a MEGA user to a Windows user, see "Associating a Windows user with a MEGA user manually".
To connect to a MEGA application (Web Front-End), the user must enter his/her password.
LDAP server
*This field only appears when the Authentication Mode is "LDAP", see "Authentication mode".
The LDAP Server is the server with which the MEGA user is authenticated in LDAP authentication mode.
This server contains the LDAP directory in which the MEGA user is registered.
Profile
*This attribute appears in the case of definition of profiles on login of persons, see "Definition of profiles to persons mode"
In the case of assignment of business roles to persons (see "Assignment of business roles to persons mode") you do not need to connect a profile to the login. The profile is connected to the business role which is assigned to the person, see "Managing Profiles and Business Roles".
*To be able to connect to MEGA the user must have at least one profile.
By default, no profile is assigned to the login of a user or user group, you must connect at least one profile to the login.
The profile determines:
access to objects and tools
*See "Managing UI Access (Permissions)", page 170.
connection to Web applications
repository access
access to products
*If a user already has access rights restricted by the Command Line attribute on his/her Login (see "Viewing Login Characteristics"), the products accessible to this user are at the intersection of values of the Command Line attribute of the user login and profile.
At installation, some profiles are already available in the environment.
*See "Profiles Supplied".
Administrator profile
*This attribute appears in the case of assignment of business roles to persons mode, see "Assignment of business roles to persons mode".
This attribute enables connection of an administrator profile to a user so that this user can connect to the Administration (Windows Front-End) application.
*See "Configuring the MEGA Administrator business role".