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Group setup best practices?

security Supervisor (4.x - 6.x)
#1

Seeing that there different ways to configure user groups, could somebody please point me to a resource outlining the best practices to follow when designing a user group structure?

Our company has a fairly complex organizational structure with multiple business units, geographic regions, functional groupings, etc. Our goal is to overhaul our current structure which has been designed sub-optimally, and achieve a structure that allows for both precise document sharing and ease of maintenance.

Thanks,

Tubejig

Tubejig (BOB member since 2005-03-22)

#2

Take a look at the Supervisor FAQ we have here. Also, look in BOB’s downloads. I believe there might be a paper that gives some ideas.

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Steve Krandel :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-25)

#3

Try this Recommended Repository Structure post for starters. It also contains a link to another thread where this topic is discussed.

Dwayne Hoffpauir :us: (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

#4

Thanks all,

Sounds like the safest and most painless way to do it is to:

  1. Setup another “Config-Branch”
  2. Set up the proper permissions (“green lights”) for the groups in this
    branch
  3. Start adding each user to one and only one of the config groups (which
    will determine their resource permissions on a Most Restrictive basis).
  4. Green light the rest of the existing groups.
  5. Use those groups for information resource sharing (eg. documents,
    universes) (which will be determined on a Least Restrictive basis).

That’s the understanding that I have at this point, but I’m so new to this that I could totally be misunderstanding something. If so, please let me know.

Thanks,

Tubejig

Tubejig (BOB member since 2005-03-22)

#5

Tubejig,

It looks like you got it right. Good job! :yesnod:

MichaelWelter :vatican_city: (BOB member since 2002-08-08)