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About User Administration
Users with administrator privileges can access User Administration (pstsec), which is an interface for performing the following tasks:
- Adding or removing users from the database
- Defining user groups
- Granting and managing user and user group permissions
- Connecting to your organization's user directories (see Configuring LDAP)
Accessing the User Administration Module
Open one of the following addresses in your browser to access the User Administration module:
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- Choose Security Configuration from the administration menu (gear icon).
- Click the Browse User Administration on <host> link.
Default Admin User
The user appointed to manage your Parasoft infrastructure should have administrative permissions assigned at the beginning of the security configuration. Those permissions include the following:
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The administrative (admin) user already exists in the database. For security reasons, we recommend assigning administrative permissions to the selected user with a unique password.
Terminology
This section describes user-related terminology:
Permission
Permissions refer to the type of access a user has to a specific functionality. The permission format includes the applicable tool, name of the permission type, and permission value (tool:name:value).
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Permission applies to both Permission group and User.
Native Permissions
Permissions that have been explicitly granted to a permission group by an administrator.
Inherited Permissions
Permissions that are inherited from a parent permission group.
Permission Group
A permission group represents a set of permissions. Permission groups can contain multiple native permissions and can be children of multiple parent permission groups. You can enable/disable both native and inherited permissions in a group.
User
"User" refers to a regular system user. Each user can have multiple of permissions (native permissions) and can be a member of multiple permission groups.
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