Creating Security Groups and Assigning Permission

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In this exercise, we will create users and user groups, then assign permissions to the groups instead of directly to the users.

1. Create the following three users:
   • AmyH/Amy Hempel/abc
   • TobyW/Tobias Wolff/abc
   • RayC/Ray Carver/abc
2. Select Users > Groups and add a group called Data Center and save it.
   1. Click the Opswise Permissions tab and add the following permission:
      • Type=Task Instance
      • Read
      • All Opswise Groups
   2. Click the Group Members tab and click Edit.
   3. Add Ray Carver to the group.
3. Add another group called Banking Operations and save it.
   1. Add the following two permissions:
      • Type=Task Instance
      • Read
      • Update
      • Opswise Groups=Collections
      • Default Group=deselect
      • Commands=None
      and
      • Type=Task Instance
      • Read
      • Update
      • Opswise Groups=Letters of Credit
      • Default Group=deselect
      • Commands=All
      
   2. Use the Group Members tab and Edit button to add Amy Hempel to the group.
4. Add a third group called IT Personnel and save it.
   1. Add the following two permissions: Type=Trigger
      • Create
      • Read
      • Update
      • Delete
      • All Opswise Groups
      • Commands=None
   2. Repeat the above permissions for Type=Task.

   

   3. Add Tobias Wolff to the group.
5. Log in as each of the users and note that each is limited to those functions assigned to his or her group.

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