IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5: User assistance for administrators
Access
Control who has access to the site.
Managing users and groups View, create, and delete users and user groups. You can also change group
memberships. Before you can modify user and group information, you must have the appropriate level
of authorization.
Working with resource permissions You can control whether a resource propagates or inherits its
role assignments, assign roles explicitly to specific users and groups, place resources under the
control of an external security manager or bring externalized resources back under the control of
portal, create or delete roles on externalized resources, view inherited role assignments for
specific users and groups, and modify resource owners.
Managing permissions for users and groups View and modify the access rights that users and user groups have for
resources. Access rights are determined by role assignments.
Managing credential information Credential Vault holds credential information and allows portlets to access
the credentials to provide single sign-on authentication. Credential Vault allows you to add and
manage vault segments and resources as well as managing system and user vault slot. You can
create a vault slot for each known application in the portal that requires access to secure
resources.