Adding Roles and Users for Authenticated Access
Adding a Role
- Log into the Management Console.
- Go to the System > Security > Roles item on the left hand side menu.
- Click Add.
A dialog will show allowing you to enter a role name and optionally tick to enable permissions on various secured entities.
- Enter the name of the new Role. For a role to be available with Spectrum Spatial Analyst its name must start with the word “Analyst”. For example
AnalystRole1
. - Click Save to save it.Note: For more information, refer to Creating a Role section in Spectrum Spatial Admin Guide.
Adding Users and assigning them to a role
- Log into the Management Console.
- Go to the System > Security > Users item on the left hand side menu.
- Click Add.
A dialog will show allowing you to enter the user’s name and other details.
- Enter the name of the new user and ensure that the user is added to one or more of the Analyst roles.
- Click Save.Note: For more information, refer to Adding a User section in Spectrum Spatial Admin Guide.
Note: You should not assign any user-specific permissions to the user. All the permissions the user needs will be assigned to the Analyst roles. Analyst will only look at role permissions when a user signs in and will ignore any user-specific permissions that have been assigned.