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Roles in Secure Global Desktop

Roles are used in Secure Global Desktop to allocate and restrict who can perform certain tasks. Only those users occupying a given role may perform the tasks associated with that role.

Associated with a role are a set of webtop links. These links appear on the webtops of all users occupying that role, in addition to the links those users normally see.

You define who occupies a role, and the extra links they see, using role objects.

Available roles

There is one role available as standard with Secure Global Desktop: the Global Administrators role.

• Users occupying the Global Administrators role are Secure Global Desktop Administrators, who can configure any part of Secure Global Desktop. They can run both Object Manager and Array Manager, as well as all tarantella commands.
• Users without any explicit role have no administration privileges.

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