Each Rational® Synergy
database has a list of users. After you unpack a database from base.cpk,
the list contains suggestions of user roles that you might want to
give to users of a database. Each user list needs to contain the team
members who can use the database. First, add user names to the list
of users for each Rational Synergy
database. Then, give each user at least one role to define user capabilities
within a Rational Synergy
database. Before you assign user names, determine whether to use automatic
email notification. To use the automatic email notification feature,
verify that your email tool can recognize the OS user name and deliver
mail to the appropriate address.
A user can have multiple roles within a single database. For example,
user sue might have the role of writer and developer.
Users who run web-mode sessions must be added to the RDS and to
the Rational Synergy databases.
For information about adding users to RDS, see the Administrating section
of the Rational Synergy
Information center.
Roles identify which privileges a user has within a database. For
example, if user sue is only given the developer role,
she can perform all developer operations. However,
she cannot perform any build_mgr operations. The ccm_admin role
is only used in Synergy Classic and CLI.
Note: Users with the ccm_admin role can perform
administrative actions on a database, and have the right to modify
any and every object in a database. Limit access to this role
and to the Rational Synergy
administrator to users who specifically need this level of access.
Although ccm_root has all role, it might or might
not display in the users file list of roles.
Adding users to a database for Windows
Adding users to a database for UNIX