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.
