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Configuring Portability Suite and
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Your Network Environment
This section provides information about setting up user authorization and authentication,
configuring your network environment, and managing your product's default settings and behavior.
2.1 Setting Up User Authorization and
Authentication
Portability Suite's user authorization and authentication mechanism is based on user roles, and
controls application access and operations that users can perform. The mechanism is based on
Integrated Windows* Authentication (IWA) and its interaction with Internet Information Services
(IIS).
Portability Suite's user auditing functionality is provided through the capability to log user actions
(see
"Setting Up User Activity Logging" on page
2.1.1 Portability Suite Roles
A Portability Suite role is a collection of Portability Suite privileges that entitle a particular user to
perform specific actions. During installation, the Portability Suite installation program creates three
local Windows groups on the Portability Suite Server host: Portability Suite Administrators,
Portability Suite Power Users, and Portability Suite Operators. These groups map directly to the
three Portability Suite roles that control user authorization and authentication:
Portability Suite Administrators: Have unlimited access to all features and functions of the
application. A local administrator is implicitly part of this group.
Portability Suite Power Users: Have access to most features and functions of the application
with some limitations, such as restrictions in the capability to modify system settings related to
licensing and security.
Portability Suite Operators: Have access to a limited subset of system features and functions,
sufficient to maintain day-to-day operation.
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