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Removing user access to resources

When you no longer want your users to have access to organization resources, you can remove their user access permissions. Several options are available.

About this task

Removing user access permissions requires that:
  • You have thorough knowledge of the permissions included under your organization's roles.
  • You check whether users do not have access permissions to resources in any of the roles they have.

Remove a role having user access permissions

By removing a role that has user access permissions, the users who are assigned that role will no longer have access to organization resources. Examine all the roles that cover organization resources and remove those roles.

About this task

This is a drastic measure. Note that all users who are already assigned to this role will be affected by this change.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Users view and select the Permissions tab.
  2. Select an organization and select the role you want to delete.
  3. Select .

Remove user access permissions from an existing role

By removing user access permissions from an existing role, you edit the permissions enabled by that role.

About this task

This is a drastic measure. Note that all users who are already assigned to this role will be affected by this change.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Users view and select the Permissions tab.
  2. Expand the Edit Roles list and select the role you want to remove permissions from.
  3. In the [role name] dialog, clear the checkboxes which refer to resources.
  4. Select Finish.

Remove user from role having user access permissions

By removing users from a role that has user access permissions, users no longer have access to your organization resources.

About this task

If users have several roles, each including user access permissions, remove users from all roles you see fit.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Users view and select the Permissions tab.
  2. Select the user's home organization (the organization in which the user was created).
  3. Select the checkbox corresponding to the user's name.
  4. Select Remove Users.