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Profile Groups

A profile group is a group defined in the CA ControlMinder database that contains default values for user properties. When you assign a user to a profile group, the profile group provides those values to the user unless they have already been set for the user.

You can specify a profile group for a user when you create the user, or you can assign the user to the profile group afterwards.

Profile groups let administrators efficiently create a standard setup with specific permissions for any new user assigned to that group. This setup can specify such things as the home directory of the user, the audit properties, the PMDB A policy model database (PMDB) is a stand‑alone CA ControlMinder database, which contains the same types of rules as a CA ControlMinder database associated with a specific host system. When rules are applied to the master PMDB, these rules are propagated to all of the subscribed databases that were defined for the master. that defines the access authorities, and various password rules affecting a user who is associated with a profile group.