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Passkey Summary

Passkeys offer ASF users control over the data they store in the database. With passkey security, you can decide who can access your tables and what type of access they are allowed. Additionally, the ASF administrator can place global passkey restrictions on users, thereby restricting the activities the users can perform through ASF.

You have full passkey authority, barring any global restrictions, over tables you own, and you can assign passkeys to other users that allow them to access those tables. The passkey functions of ASF enable you to perform the following activities:

• Give passkeys to other users
• Delete passkeys you have given to other users
• Show passkeys you have given to other users
• Show passkeys other users have given to you

When CA ICMS is installed, users achieve the same results when they perform passkey functions through ASF as when they perform passkey functions through CA-ICMS. For example, passkeys can be assigned to groups as well as to users.

For more information about each passkey type, see the chapter "Passkey Screens".