Managing Users and Groups

In Crowd, users are referred to as user entity objects or just users. Groups are known as permission container objects. Groups are particularly important in Crowd, as they are often used to control access to applications. Note also that the crowd-administrators group confers Crowd administration rights to its members.

Notes:

• Support for roles, previously deprecated, has been removed in Crowd 2.5. The implementation of roles in Crowd was identical to the implementation of groups and did not provide any extra functionality.

• This section describes how to add/edit users and groups via the Crowd Administration Console. Note that the ability to do this depends on the permissions of the directory which contains the users and groups.

Managing Users and Groups

• Using the User Browser
• Adding a User
• Editing a User's Details and Password
• Deleting or Deactivating a User
• Case Sensitivity of Usernames and Groups
• Specifying a User's Aliases
• Editing a User's Group Membership
• Managing Groups
  • Deleting a Group
  • Adding a Group
• Managing Group Members
  • Automatically Assigning Users to Groups
  • Adding Users to a Group
  • Removing Users from a Group
  • Nested Groups in Crowd
  • Adding a Sub-Group
  • Removing a Sub-Group
• Specifying a User's Attributes
• Granting Crowd Administration Rights to a User
• Granting Crowd User Rights to a User
• Managing a User's Session