Central User Administrator

CUA stands for Central User Administration, a central user source for G-Core servers.

Up till now, a user list has been maintained on every G-Core server and typically a cross-server user was needed. This resulted in a high degree of configuration work.

The configuration of the users in the CUA setup no longer takes place in the usual workflow. User rights and blocking settings are now distributed to roles and users are assigned to these roles. In addition, a role can be assigned to the two-person principle instead of individual users.

In the configuration of the CUA, predefined roles are built in that automatically receive the necessary rights for the G-Core servers. More about that can be found in the section User Roles.

For compatibility reasons, a copy of the user configuration from the CUA service is stored in the G-Core server setup. This means that all user data is known to every G-Core server without having to retrieve this data at runtime from the CUA service.

To prevent unauthorized overwriting of users with the use of a CUA service, G-Set must authorize a specific CUA service as the user source.