Manage access
Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to IBM Connections data.
Manage access by setting roles, creating superusers, allowing third-party applications to access data, making sure the administrator credentials are accurate, keeping users synchronized with the directory, managing inappropriate content, and enabling moderation.
- Roles
- Manage stored credentials
IBM Connections does not create nor store user names and passwords. Instead, it uses the user credentials that already exist in the LDAP directory for authentication. IBM Connections does not store administrative user IDs and passwords either. It does, however, create and store references to existing administrative user credentials. We can make changes to those references.
- Manage users
As employees come and go from your organization, the corporate directory changes, and there are some steps that you, as the administrator, must take to make sure that those changes are reflected in the product by keeping the Connections membership tables up-to-date with the changes that occur in the corporate directory.
- Use the LDAP directory as the user directory
Edit configuration property settings to disable IBM Connections directory service extensions.
- Groups
Content owners can use LDAP groups to control access to resources in the Communities, Activities, Files, and Wikis applications. For this reason, it is important to consider the effect that updating LDAP groups will have on the existing membership of these resources.
Parent topic:
Administer common areas