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Specify Access Rights to Security Areas

The Security Areas object class encapsulates the permissions for the security areas. Access rights to this object class are necessary to view, link, and unlink the security areas with the security profiles and objects.

To grant access rights to the security areas

1. Select Security Profiles from the Security menu.

   The Security Profiles dialog appears.

2. Select the profile that needs access to the Security Area object class, and click Class Permissions.

   The Class Permissions dialog appears displaying the current access rights.

3. Select the Security Area object class.

   The existing access rights are displayed in the Class access drop-down list.

4. Select the required access type, and click OK.

   The given access rights are saved to the selected security profile. Each permission on the security area has the following effect:

   View (V)

   Lists the security areas in the domain. When granting the View (V) permissions for the security area, you must also do the following:

   • Grant the Write (W) permissions to the Security Profile object to enable or disable the area support for a profile and link or unlink an area to or from a security profile.
   • Grant the Change Permission (P) for a secured object to link or unlink an area to or from a secured object.

   Create (C)

   Lets you add a new security area.

   Delete (D)

   Lets you delete a security area.

   Write (W)

   Lets you change the properties of a security area.

   Change Permission (P)

   Lets you change the Global Settings, like turning on or off the security area support for the domain manager.