MEGA Administration (Web) : Managing Users : Introduction to User Management : User: Definition
   
User: Definition
*A user is a person (or person group) with a login.
For each environment, a user has:
• personal characteristics defined by his/her Person.
*see "Viewing Person Characteristics".
• a login which defines his/her connection identifier, his/her status, his/her authentication and MEGA access modes.
The login can also restrict rights defined on the associated Profile concerning access to product functions and repositories of the environment.
*see "Person Login Properties".
*see "Profile Properties".
• a user code which enables naming of user associated files, for example the work repository.
*see "Person Login Properties".
• (if "Management of assignment of business roles to persons" option is selected, default mode)
at least one business role, connected to a profile, which defines the business or function of the person in the enterprise
*see "Profile Properties".
*see "Business Role Properties".
*see "Managing Profiles and Business Roles".
*see "Business Roles Supplied".
*see "Configuring a Business Role".
*see "Assigning a business role to a person".
• (if "Management of assignment of business roles to persons" is cleared, see "Profile Properties")
at least one profile, which determines products and repositories that can be accessed (restricted by products and repositories defined on his login). By default, the user is not connected to any profile.
*see "Profile Properties".
*see "Managing Profiles and Business Roles".
*see "Profiles Supplied".
*see "Connecting Users to a Profile".
• options
*see "Managing Options", page 199.
Only a user with MEGA Administrator profile (or with equivalent rights) can configure and modify user properties.
*see "MEGA Administrator profile".