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Users, groups, and roles are created for authentication and authorization purposes.
In Cognos 8, you can use users, groups, and roles created in third-party authentication providers, and groupsand roles created in Cognos 8. The groups and roles created in Cognos 8 are referred to as Cognos groups and Cognos roles.
A user entry is created and maintained in a third-party authentication provider to uniquely identify a human or a computer account. You cannot create user entries in Cognos 8.
Information about users, such as first and last names, passwords,IDs, locales, and email addresses, is stored in the providers.
Roles in Cognos 8 have a similar function as groups. Members of roles can be users, groups, and other roles. Groups and roles represent collections of users who perform similar functions, or have a similar status in an organization. Members of groups can be users and other groups. Members of roles can be users, groups, and other roles.
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6. If you want to create a group without members, click Finish. 7. If you want to add members to the new group or role, click Add and choose how to select the users, groups, or roles: To choose from listed entries, click the appropriate namespace, and then select the check boxes next to the users, groups, or roles To search for entries, click Search and in the Search string box, type the phrase you want