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Benefits of the List Roles and Users by Resource

The base CA Top Secret product has no equivalent to the List Roles and Users by Resource report. The closest equivalent is the TSS WHOHAS command, which shows the users and profiles that have access to the resource through PERMITs on the best-fit owned resource entity. This command does not list users and profiles that have access to the resource through special attributes or through resource ownership. The command also does not list users and profiles that have access rights through owned and permitted resources other than the best-fit resource entity. For profiles that have access through PERMITs, it does not list the users who have access because they are connected to the profile. Some of this information can be obtained through other TSS commands, but obtaining it is a long manual process.

The advantages of the report over issuing CA Top Secret commands are as follows:

• In a multiple system image environment, the report can be run for more than one system image. To obtain the same information using TSS commands, the commands must be issued for each system image, and the information correlated manually.
• In a single process, you can obtain all users who have access to the resource for any reason, a process that would be tedious, difficult, and possibly incomplete using TSS commands.
• The report can be customized to return the depth of information desired.