Users and User Groups
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A unique feature of the Portal Server software is the ability to group Resources into Resource
Groups. This allows the administrator to quickly and easily assign several resources at once to
more than one User or User Groups. This also makes the ongoing management of this
content for these Users or User Groups much easier. For example, if the organization has
three User Groups—Marketing, Engineering, and Sales—they might create four resource
groups. These Resource Groups would be Full Access, which are resources that everyone can
see, and one Resource Group for each of the user groups. Full Access would be assigned to
all user groups, and the Marketing Resource Group would be assigned to the Marketing User
Group, the Engineering Resource Group to the Engineering User Group, and the Sales
Resource Group to the Sales User Group.
Resource Groups provide the added bonus that they allow the Administrator to quickly
provide access to new content to Users and User Groups. For example, if the organization
originally had ten Live Channels on the network, and another Live Channel was added, the
Administrator would simply need to add that Channel to the appropriate Resource Groups
and the channel would be available.

5. Create Users on the ETV Portal Server

Creating users is an optional step that can be completed for the following reasons.
• The organization needs to provide a single user with additional privileges above and
beyond what is available to his or her User Group or Resource Group.
• The organization wants to authenticate IPR users using a PIN.
• Users can be assigned to multiple User Groups.

6. Assign Resources to Users or User Groups

The final step is to provide access to Resources to Users and/or User Groups. The
administrator can assign individual resources to Users or User Groups, or can assign
Resource Groups (if created) to Users or User Groups. Detailed information on the steps to
configure access control and provide access to resources to Users and/or User Groups is
provided in the following sections.
Configuring Users
There are several different ways to provide privileges to different User and User Groups with
the ETV Portal Server. The easiest way is to use the group structure of an existing LDAP
database. LDAP User Groups can be added to the ETV Portal Server system and assigned
permissions (see User Groups below). All of the users in this group will have the same
permissions. For ease of implementation, VBrick recommends configuring User Groups and
Resource Groups (see these sections below), prior to configuring users.
However, if further individual permissions need to be assigned, administrators can add them
as a user. Under the users section, administrators have the ability to add, modify and delete
users. Submit may be pressed at anytime during the process or can be done when everything
has been added/modified. Users will have the permissions of the group as well as the
additional permission that are assigned to them. The ETV Portal Server is additive in its
permissions, meaning that it takes all of the permissions that are provided to a particular user
and provides all of these to the user.
Users can be added by using the VBrick Database if LDAP authentication is not available or
desired. Finally, in order to assign user PINs to access IP Receivers, a user assignment is