1.3. User Management

The User Details tab displays the username, first name, last name, email address, and administrative roles (if any) for the user. All of this information can be modified simply by making any changes and clicking the Update button. When changing a user's password, you will see only asterisks as you type for security reasons.

1.3.1. Assigning User Roles

To delegate responsibilities within your organization, Satellite provides several roles with varying degrees of responsibility and access. This list describes the permissions of each and the differences between them:

RHN Satellite Administrator — This is a special role that deals with Satellite administrative tasks, such as creating organizations, managing subscriptions, configuring Proxy settings, and more.
Organization Administrator — This role can perform management functions for a Satellite organization. Organization administrators can manage users, systems, channels, and more in the context of their particular organization.
Activation Key Administrator — This role is designed to manage your organization's collection of activation keys. This person can create, modify, and delete any key within your overarching account.
Channel Administrator — This role has complete access to the software channels and related associations within your organization. It requires RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy Server. This person may change the base channels of systems, make channels globally subscribable, and create entirely new channels.
Configuration Administrator — This role enables the user to manage the configuration of systems in the organization using the RHN Satellite interface.
Monitoring Administrator — This role allows for the scheduling of probes and oversight of other monitoring infrastructure. This role is available only on Monitoring-enabled Satellites.
System Group Administrator — This role is one step below Organization Administrator in that it has complete authority over the systems and system groups to which it is granted access. This user can create new system groups, delete any assigned systems groups, add systems to groups, and manage user access to groups.

While it is possible for one Satellite administrator to remove Satellite administrator rights from another user, it is impossible to remove Satellite administrator rights from the sole remaining Satellite administrator. It is possible to remove your own Satellite administrator privileges so long as you are not the last Satellite administrator.

To assign a user a new role, select the appropriate checkbox. Remember that Organization administrators are automatically granted administration access to all other roles, signified by grayed-out checkboxes. When satisfied with the changes, click Update.