ActiveTransfer Server 10.5 | webMethods ActiveTransfer Documentation | Administering ActiveTransfer Server | Managing Users, User Groups, and User Roles | Overview
 
Overview
ActiveTransfer users are My webMethods Server users who have an ActiveTransfer profile. The ActiveTransfer profile contains all of the settings required for users to log in to ActiveTransfer Server to transfer files and perform other ActiveTransfer tasks.
You can create an ActiveTransfer profile for a user in two ways:
*If the user is already defined as a My webMethods Server user, either by way of the internal My webMethods Server system directory service or through an external directory service such as LDAP, you create an ActiveTransfer profile for the user by associating the user with ActiveTransfer. For details, see Associating an Existing My webMethods Server User with ActiveTransfer .
*If the user is not already defined as a My webMethods Server user, you can create the user in the My webMethods Server system directory and define an ActiveTransfer profile for the user at the same time. For details, see Creating a New User.
Inheritance of Permissions and Settings in Groups and Roles
In My webMethods Server, members of a group or role can be any user, any role, or any group. Groups and roles can also have multiple groups and roles in a parent-child hierarchy. Inheritance of permissions and settings for groups and roles work as follows:
*When a user is a member of any child group or child role, the user also inherits the parent group or role. For example, the user Mary is added to group B, and group A is the parent of group B. Consequently, Mary is also a member of group A.
*Any settings applied to the parent groups and roles in ActiveTransfer user management configuration, virtual folder management configuration, and post-processing event configuration are inherited by all child groups and roles. For example, the role Admin_all is the parent of the role Admin_a and Admin_a is the parent of group Admin_bldEast. Admin_all is provided access to the virtual folder Enterprise. Therefore, all members of the role Admin_a and group Admin_bldEast also have access to Enterprise.
*A user is able to log in to ActiveTransfer if the user is a member of any user role or group for which ActiveTransfer login is enabled.
*A user's ActiveTransfer login permission is disabled only when login is disabled for all groups and roles of which the user is a member. If, however, ActiveTransfer login is disabled only for a few groups or roles, the user will continue to have login permission to ActiveTransfer.