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User Authorization

After a user is successfully authenticated, he or she can use the Notification Website to perform various tasks. The kinds of tasks and the degree to which the user can perform them depends on whether the user is properly authorized.

The fundamental question involved in user authorization is "who can do what to whom." In the case of the Notification Website user authorization, the who corresponds to the Notification Manager login object; the whom corresponds to the Notification Manager contact object; and the what corresponds to the operations available within the Notification Website. Such operations include the following:

• Notify someone by using the available Notification Manager notification methods
• Read schedule or contact information data
• Update schedule or contact information data
• Manage logins (create and delete login users within the Notification Website)
• Manage methods (create, modify and delete Notification Manager methods)