Chapter 29: Managing Roles

This topic discusses how to enhance your ability to manage access to Adaptive Server through the use of user-defined roles. This topic includes:

Creating a user-defined role
Deleting a user-defined role
Displaying role properties
Setting a password for a role
Assigning a role to a login
Specifying mutual exclusivity
Specifying a role’s hierarchy
Managing command permissions for a role
Permissions on columns

For more information about user-defined roles, see the Adaptive Server System Administration Guide.

Privileges

Only the system security officer can create and manage roles.

For the system security officer to create and manage roles or for a login to activate roles using Sybase Central, the system security officer or login must have select permission on the sysroles, syssrvroles, and sysloginroles tables. One way to accomplish this is to give the public group in the master table these permissions.