Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Users and roles

Users and roles, along with the permissions granted to roles, form the basis of ArcGIS Server's built-in security framework. Unsecured services are viewable by anyone without any sort of login required. A user is any person or another user (sometimes referred to as a headless user, often software, a program, or a script) that will access a GIS server resource. ArcGIS Server keeps track of users in its built-in identity store. Also managed by the identity store are roles, where a role constitutes a set of users. Roles in ArcGIS Server often equate to groups (sometimes informal) within your organization. There could be a group of GIS users that only need to view services, but also a group of analysts that need to edit data in ...