Administration Tool: Users

Panel Description

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Purpose

A security realm contains users and groups plus their associated access control lists (ACLs). The access control list for a user in a particular realm specifies the privileges that user is granted to access server resources. Resources include such things as documents (URLs), files, directories, servlets, and services.

The Users page enables you to view, add, edit, or delete the list of users in a given Realm. Once you've created a list of users, you control their access using the Add/Remove and Edit features on the Access Control Lists page. To assign the same user different sets of access privileges, you assign the user to more than one access control list.

Location of panel in Administration Tool:

Log In	-->		Service name	-->	Manage	-->	Security
							\|_ Users

Fields

Realm
A realm is a database of users, groups, and access control lists. Realms specify which users have access to the resources of a specific service (for example, the Web Page Service). For more information on realms and resource protection, see Resource Protection.

Java Web Server^(TM) has the following security realms:

certificateRealm - Used to protect resources for users who are authenticated using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This realm is only packaged in the versions of this product that include SSL.
defaultRealm - Controls the example servlets. This realm can also be used for general management of users and groups.
servletMgrRealm - Used exclusively for signed servlet support, which is used primarily by software publishers. Holds the X.509 certificates used to authenticate those publishers.
UNIX - Applies only to users in a UNIX(R) environment and therefore is only available in the Solaris version of this product. It is the same database of users as listed by the UNIX getpwent() routines. This realm lets the server use HTTP Basic authentication with users' UNIX passwords.
NTRealm - Applies only to users in a Windows NT environment (only available in the Win32 version of this product).

Buttons

Add
Adds a user to the selected Realm.

Remove
Removes a user from the selected Realm.

Change Password
Changes the password for the user selected in the Name field. This button is present for the UNIX realm and defaultRealm only.

Procedures

To Display the Users in a Realm

To Add a New User to a Realm

To Add a New User in the certificateRealm or servletMgrRealm

To Delete a User Account From a Realm

To Change a User's Password (UNIX or defaultRealm Only)

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