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Authorizations for General Users

We recommend that authorizations for general users enable them to use the User Selection Menu to change the configuration of their own virtual machines. You can authorize them to use either all of the menu selections or only some of them.

CA VM:Director provides authorizations for the User Selection Menu and for each of its selections separately. All User Selection Menu selections are authorized with only the USER authorization and let users use those selections on their own user IDs. Authorizations to individual selections for the USER command authorization are listed in the table Authorization to Use CA VM:Director Commands and Utilities.

Example:1

To let CORY and LEE use all selections on the User Selection Menu, add this record to your AUTHORIZ CONFIG file:

GRANT USER TO CORY LEE

Example:2

To deny LEE the use of menu selection 4, add this record to the AUTHORIZ CONFIG file:

WITHHOLD USESEL04 FROM LEE

Example:3

To authorize all users to use all selections from the User Selection Menu on themselves, add this record to your AUTHORIZ CONFIG file:

GRANT USER TO *ALL

Example:4

To prevent all users from changing their distribution codes and account numbers, restrict access to menu selection 9 with this WITHHOLD record:

WITHHOLD USESEL09 FROM *ALL