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Defining Roles for an Application

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You determine a security policy for an application by defining the security privileges that it requires. To do this you declare a symbolic level of privilege as a role—that is, define the role for the application—and then assign the role to specific resources within the application. This design is fulfilled when the application is deployed and system administrators populate the role with actual users and user groups. For greater detail, see Role-Based Security Administration.

To add a role to an application

  1. In the console tree of the Component Services administrative tool, locate the COM+ application to which you want to add the role. Expand the tree to view the folders for the application.

  2. Right-click the Roles folder for the application, point to New, and then click Role.

  3. In the Roledialog box, type the name of the new role in the box provided.

  4. Click OK.

Note

After adding roles to the application, you must be sure to assign the roles to the appropriate components, interfaces, and methods. Otherwise, if role-based security has been chosen and enabled and if roles have been added but not assigned, all calls to the application will fail. For more information, see Assigning Roles to Components, Interfaces, or Methods.

 

Assigning Roles to Components, Interfaces, or Methods

Configuring Role-Based Security

Enabling Access Checks for an Application

Enabling Access Checks at the Component Level

Setting a Security Level for Access Checks