has a plugable security mechanism and offers a variety of Security Managers. If you use the built-in security manager, a tenant admin can create users and roles directly in your tenants. See the Manage Users and the Manage Roles for instructions on creating users and roles.
also supports the LDAP Security Manager that pulls users and groups from your external Active Directory or Open LDAP system; a Delegating Security Manager such as used by Confluence; and custom security managers. Refer to your security manager documentation for instructions for creating users and roles. Note that with LDAP Security Manager and Delegating Security Manager, Groups are the equivalent of Roles.
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Creating Roles
With built-in security manager, a tenant admin can create and manage roles directly in a tenant; roles are commonly used in work flows and for digital signatures. See the Manage Roles topic for instructions on creating and managing roles.
With the LDAP Security Manager or Delegating Security Manager, groups are the equivalent of the roles created in tenants that use the built-in security manager. Please refer to the documentation for those security managers for information about creating users and groups (roles).
Creating Users
With ' built-in security manager, a tenant admin can create and manage users directly in a tenant. See the Manage Users topic for instructions on creating and managing users.
With the LDAP Security Manager or Delegating Security Manager, users and groups (which are equivalent to roles) are defined outside of .
Using Roles & Users
If you use LDAP Security Manager, please refer to your LDAP documentation, the Working with LDAP page, and LDAP Use Cases for information about using roles and users.
Security Manager Configuration
has a built-in security manager that allows you to create users and roles directly in your tenant. also supports a LDAP Security Manager that pulls users and groups from your external Active Directory or Open LDAP system.