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What is a role object?

Role objects define which users occupy particular roles, and what additional links those users see on their webtop. Role objects are stored in the Tarantella System Objects organization within the ENS organizational hierarchy.

Note You can't create or delete role objects: there are a fixed number of roles, with predefined privileges.

In Object Manager, choosing Properties for a role object shows two tabs:

• The Members tab shows all the users who occupy the role: those users with the privileges granted by the role. Drop person objects or profile objects on this tab to let the appropriate users occupy the role.
• The Links tab shows the extra webtop links these users have. Drop objects on this tab to add them to the webtop.

For each object in the Members tab, the tree shown on the object's own Links tab shows the role object, which expands to show the webtop links granted by the role.

From the command line, use tarantella role to define which users occupy a role and the extra webtop links they see.