Collaborative projects sometimes involve repository users working with external users such as clients, auditors, or suppliers. External users typically do not have user accounts administered centrally in the repository, like LDAP users do, for instance. Such mixed groups might perform confidential or proprietary work, and can benefit from membership in the same room.
To address these cases, system administrators can delegate some user-management tasks to non-administrators by assigning them to the role of user Manager (dce_user_manager). User managers can perform a variety of user management tasks without being a system administrator. Specifically, user managers can:
Browse users and groups. User managers can access a node in the repository tree called Administration, which contains a link to User Management, which links to pages for Users, Groups, and Roles.
Create new users. In the Administration area, and on room member pages, user managers have access to a dialog box for creating new users.
Modify users. User managers can unlist certain users, or prevent their names from appearing in the repository user list in a user picker. They can also restrict certain users’ access to content.
In addition to this overview topic, the following topics describe managing users as a non-administrator: