The user profile contains most of the authorizations and preferences for individual users or groups. With iSeries™ Navigator, you can create and manage users and groups across the server.
User profiles contain the information the iSeries server requires to allow users to sign on to a system, to access their own customized session, including their own message and output queue, and to access functions and objects to which they have been granted authority.
A user profile includes:
User profiles may be included in group profiles. In this way, all group members share attributes, share access to specific objects, and share ownership of objects. Group profiles can simplify many user administration tasks by allowing you to apply a single change to many users.
iSeries Navigator's user administration function provides convenient ways to manage users and groups across the iSeries server. For specific security recommendations on creating profiles, see Planning user profiles and Planning user groups.
Use iSeries Navigator to create and manage user profiles and groups if your own user profile has the required authority. Expand Users and groups to create and manage user profiles. Additionally, you can use this function to perform some common actions on a selected user, such as sending a message, and working with that user's jobs and objects.