User profiles

The user profile contains most of the authorizations and preferences for individual users or groups. With System i® Navigator, you can create and manage users and groups across the system.

User profiles contain the information that the system 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:

• A system user profile name
• The user's privileges and limitations
• A list of objects the user owns or is authorized to use
• A reference to a message queue
• A reference to an output queue
• Information about which groups the user is a member of (up to 16)
• Information about the user's last sign-on
• Job attributes, such as description and priority, the initial program to call, and the initial library list
• National language settings
• Other attributes, such as the user ID (UID), group ID (GID), and home directory

User profiles can be included in group profiles. In this way, all group members share attributes, access to specific objects, and ownership of objects. Group profiles can simplify many user administration tasks by allowing you to apply a single change to many users.

System i Navigator's user administration function provides convenient ways to manage users and groups across the system.

Working with user profiles

Use System i 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.