Red Hat NETWORK 3.6 Reference Manual

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Chapter 6. Red Hat Network Website 1116.8.1. User RolesTo delegate responsibilities within your organization, Red Hat Network provides several roles withvarying degrees of responsibility and access. This list describes the permissions of each and the dif-ferences between them:• User — Also known as a System Group User, this is the standard role associated with any newlycreated user. This person may be granted access to manage system groups and software channels butis otherwise limited to managing the systems he or she registers. Remember, however, all globallysubscribable channels may be used by anyone.• Activation Key Administrator — This role is designed to manage your organization’s collectionof activation keys. This person can create, modify, and delete any key within your overarchingaccount.• Software Channel Administrator — This role has complete access to the software channels andrelated associations within your organization. This person may change the base channels of systems,make channels globally subscribable, and create entirely new channels, if your organization hascustom channel management privileges.• Configuration Administrator — This role enables the user to manage the configuration of systemsin the organization using either the RHN website or the RHNCM;.• Monitoring Administrator — This role allows for the scheduling of probes and oversight of otherMonitoring infrastructure.• Organization Administrator — This role can perform any function available within Red HatNetwork. As the master account for your organization, the person holding this role can alter theprivileges of all other accounts, as well as conduct any of the tasks available to the other roles. Likethe other roles, multiple Organization Administrators may exist.• System Group Administrator — This role is one step below Organization Administrator in thatit has complete authority over the systems and system groups to which its granted access. Thisperson can create new system groups, delete any assigned systems groups, add systems to groups,and manage user access to groups.6.8.2. User List —As shown in Figure 6-8, each row in the User List represents a user within your organization. Thereare three columns of information for each user:• Username — The login name of the user. If you click on a username, the User Details page for theuser is displayed. Refer to Section 6.8.2.2 User Details — for more information.• Real Name — The full name of the user (last name first).• Roles — List of the user’s privileges, such as Organization Administrator, Channel Administratorand normal user. Users can have multiple roles.• Last Sign In — Shows when the user last logged into RHN.