Users management

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XBM has handles users that can access the resources of one or more sessions.

Each user is identified by:

name
password
description
email address
LDAP DN (optional)

Obviously name and password allow XBM to recognize who the user is. Optionally you may use LDAP to authorize users. To use LDAP, youd don't have to specify a password for that user, but you have to provide the full LDAP DN (Distinguish Name). If the XBM instance has been configured to connect an LDAP server, it will authorize the user according to the stored DN and the provided password.

Once defined, the users should be assigned to one ore more sessions, with the desired role. This means that the same user may have different roles on different sessions (i.e. to be administrator for session A and operator for session B).

The role has been provided to identify what user can do and what user cannot do. Two roles are actually recognized:

administrator
operator

Users with administrator role can do everything on the XBM instances.

Users defined as operator can only:

submit jobs
pause, resume, purge, reply and kill requeste issued by themselves
report XBM status
perform reports

and cannot:

shutdown XBM
purge, pause, resume, kill and reply to requests issued by other users

Users definition

Users can be defined by administrator using XBM Datasource Manager.

Once a user has been define, he must be assigned to the desired session(s).