HOPEX Administration : Administrator Guide : Managing Users : Actions to be Performed to Define a User : Before defining a user: profile concepts
   
Before defining a user: profile concepts
To connect to HOPEX a user select the profile with which he/she wants to work.
This profile defines:
the products accessible
*If a user already has restricted access rights to products (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.
the applications and the desktops which the user is going to access.
*See "Connection schema: Person - Profile - Application".
*See "Connection schema: Person - Profile - Application - Desktops".
the user's access rights to UIs (permissions)
Assigning a profile to a person defines:
*See "Assigning a Profile to a Person".
the repository concerned by the assignment
the person's access rights to repositories with this profile assignment
(optional, with read-only access to the repository) connection repository snapshot
(optional) the validity period of the assignment