Adding groups from an LDAP directory
Before you begin
If you have system administrator privileges, you can add or edit a group and you can configure the group to include all Publications. If you have Publication Management and Permission Management rights, you can add or edit a group and can determine Publication Scope for any Publications in which you have these rights.
About this task
You can add or edit a Content Manager group from an LDAP directory. To add a group from an LDAP directory, the Content Manager must be configured to read the external directory. Refer to Configuring LDAP for more information.
When you add a group, you can also specify:
- what the Publication scope of the group is
- whether this group is a member of another group
To add a group from an external directory:
Procedure
Results
- You can add rights and permissions in the Publications that are included in the scope of this group.
- You can grant users group membership to this group. For more information, see Configuring a user.
If an LDAP group has been identified and group Sync is set to "on", the Content Manager can now authenticate the users from the LDAP group. For more information about Group Sync, refer to the Directory Services.