Users, Groups, Roles
Users
A user in Cascade Server is one who uses the content management system. Cascade Server requires individuals using the system to authenticate upon login for security, logging, and resource management purposes. Each user has a user account with a User ID (username), password, full name, and email as well as group and role membership.
Every user is identified by the system with his or her User ID. A password is then used for authentication and, the full name and e-mail serve as contact information for the user. The group and role membership help to determine the privileges a user has in the system and help to establish his or her access to various system resources.
Groups
A Group is made up of one or more users with common role permissions.
Groups are created and populated by Administrators. Each user in the system must be given membership in one Group and can be given membership to multiple Groups. Group role membership is passed on to the user, which means that the user automatically belongs to any roles that are assigned to the group(s) that the user belongs to. This is a convenient and often preferred way to easily change role memberships across groups of users.
In addition to providing a way of assigning roles to multiple users, the group can also be specified in the folder access rights interface, which gives multiple users read and/or write access to folders and folder-contained assets.
Roles
Roles outline the access rights for individual users. Roles also determine the order in which the workflow process occurs according to the customization of the workflow process. The default roles include Contributor, Approver, Publisher, Manager, and Administrator. An Administrator assigns roles. Roles are not inherited according to the workflow process; a user must be given specific roles to contribute to the workflow process (i.e. if an Approver needs the ability to edit content then (s)he must be given a Contributor role in addition to the Approver role.
