As the User and Group Permissions function is the starting point for all security administration, this is where we will begin. We have taken a brief look at this function in previous chapters, but will now see how we add a new user to MDS.
To continue with our example scenario, we need to set up a junior employee, and restrict their access to the master data. As a pre-requisite for this exercise, a new user must be added to either the domain or the computer on which MDS is running. The name of this user is not important—the following example uses a test user called User 1.
Once the above pre-requisite has been satisfied, carry out the following in order to add a new user:
Go to the MDS home page and click on the User and Group Permissions function, which will cause the following Users grid to be displayed:
As shown, we get the same grid control that we are used to, along with the familiar buttons to add, edit, or delete users. In a vanilla MDS environment...