Deleting users from security groups

The security group to which a user belongs controls the level of access and privileges for the user within the system. To address changes in your security needs, you can remove a user from a security group.

Before you begin

You must delete a security group from the application server before you can remove users from a security group. To remove a user from a group, you must be authorized to reassign users to that group. Use the Authorize Group Reassignment action in the Security Groups application or the Users application to grant this authorization.

About this task

If you delete a security group in the directory server, but you do not want to delete the group from the system, you can delete the users from that group. The users will then no longer have access to the applications to which the group previously had access. If your implementation uses an application server to authenticate with a directory, you can associate users with groups in the directory or in the system, depending on your settings. You cannot delete users from the MAXEVERYONE group.

Procedure

  1. In the directory server, delete the users from the security group that you want to delete. You must wait until the VMMSYNC cron task has fully synchronized the users and security groups in the directory server with the users and groups in the system.
  2. Delete the security group in the directory server.
  3. In the Security Groups application, select the group containing the relevant user.
  4. Click the Users tab.
  5. Delete the user.
  6. Save your changes


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