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How User Groups Are Checked

CA SYSVIEW reviews the user groups to determine security privileges. When a user issues a CA SYSVIEW command, CA SYSVIEW verifies whether the user is allowed to use the command.

CA SYSVIEW uses the following process to verify the command against the user security:

  1. Reviews the GLOBAL user group first for definitions that apply to every user of the product.
  2. Checks to see what user-defined security group the user belongs to and reviews those definitions.
  3. Uses the more specific definition in the user-defined group when a definition from a user-defined group is more specific or equivalent to a GLOBAL definition.

    The definition in the user-defined group overrides the GLOBAL group definition.

  4. Uses the DEFAULT user group if a user ID is not found in any other user group.