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Terminology

The CA Chorus, Security Administration, and Compliance Administration interfaces can use different terminology for the same objects. Security Administration interface and Compliance Policy Administration interface use CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret terminology. These differences are reflected in the documentation. The following table maps commonly used objects between these products.

CA Chorus

Security Administration interface and Compliance Policy Administration for CA ACF2

Security Administration interface and Compliance Policy Administration for CA Top Secret

user ID

logon ID or logonid

user ACID

discipline

group profile record, UID strings used in rules

profile ACID

Example: Adding an ACID

You add a user ACID on the Security Administration interface on a CA Top Secret system. This ACID appears in CA Chorus as a user ID and can be viewed in the Investigator tree under: Security Definitions, Users.