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Creating and configuring a person object

Problem

You want to create and configure a new person object for someone in your organization.

Solution

In Object Manager, create a person object in the appropriate place in the organizational hierarchy, setting the attributes (especially the Username attribute) appropriately. Then use the Links tab to add any webtop content for this person.

Alternatives
  • Use the tarantella object command to create and configure the object from the command line.
  • You can allow anonymous access -- logging in to Secure Global Desktop without a username or password -- without creating a person object.
  • You can allow access by UNIX users without creating a person object.
  • Integrate with an existing LDAP directory server on your network containing the people in your organization.

Case study

Indigo Insurance has a new recruit, Ginger Butcher. Ginger joins the IT department, and will be a Secure Global Desktop Administrator. She has special responsibility for training, and needs to use the presentation tool Slide-o-Win regularly. You need to create and configure a person object for Ginger.

Solution

  1. Log in to a Secure Global Desktop server as a Secure Global Desktop Administrator. Only Secure Global Desktop Administrators can create person objects.
  2. On your webtop, click Object Manager. If you've used Object Manager before, it appears just how you left it.
  3. The new recruit "belongs to" the IT department, so the person object should belong in the IT organizational unit. Use the Search or Browse tabs to locate the IT OU object. Right-click this object, point to New, and then click Person.
  4. Object Manager opens the IT OU on the Browse tab, and displays a text box. Type the name of the person in the box, in this case Ginger Butcher, and press Return. This name is used to uniquely identify the object within the OU.
  5. Properties for the new object appear on the right. On the Attributes tab, choose General from the list. These are the attributes you're most likely to want to change. You can get help on any attribute by clicking the context help button, in the lower-right corner of Object Manager, and then clicking the attribute.
  6. For Surname, type the person's family name, in this case Butcher.
  7. For Username, type the UNIX username of the person, in this case ginger. This attribute may be used for authentication: see user types for more information.
  8. For Email Address, type the person's full email address, in this case ginger@indigo-insurance.com.
  9. If you want Ginger's webtop to include everything that's on the webtop of the IT organizational unit, make sure that Inherit Parent's Webtop Content is checked.
  10. As this person object is for Ginger only and isn't shared between multiple users, make sure that Shared Between Users (Guest) is not checked.
  11. To let Ginger log in to Secure Global Desktop, make sure that May Log In To Secure Global Desktop is checked.
  12. If you like, choose different attribute groupings from the list, to see what other settings you can change. When you've finished changing attributes, click Apply.
  13. To define the webtop content that applies only for Ginger Butcher, use the Links tab of the person object. Use the Search or Browse tabs to locate application objects you want to add to the webtop (they don't have to be in the same OU as the person object), and just drag them onto the tab. You can also drag group objects onto the tab: Secure Global Desktop shows all the members of the group on Ginger's webtop.
  14. Ginger Butcher needs to be a Secure Global Desktop Administrator. On the Browse tab, open the Secure Global Desktop System Objects organization, and then double-click Global Administrators. Drag the person object for Ginger Butcher to the Members tab to make Ginger a Secure Global Desktop Administrator.

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