Importing and Exporting the Security Configuration

The Security Configuration program allows you to import and export your security configuration. Exporting the configuration creates a security configuration file, SECURITY.RPT, by default, in the security path. This file contains the following information:

  • Whether security is enabled or disabled.
  • Security area names.
  • Defined group and user accounts.
  • Whether a password is case sensitive or not.

After you create a security configuration file, you can copy it to another computer and import the data. Importing a configuration file does one of the following:

  • Replaces the existing security configuration with the one defined in the configuration file; or
  • Adds any new group and user accounts from the configuration file to the existing security configuration. Any account with a full name or a login name that matches an existing account is ignored. Also adds any new security areas from the configuration file in the existing security configuration.

By exporting and importing a security configuration, you can cut your development time creating user and group accounts particularly when you want to create many similar accounts on multiple nodes. For example, suppose you want to create the same user account on five nodes. Instead of creating same account five times, you can:

  1. Create one user account.
  2. Export the user account.
  3. Import the user account into the remaining 4 nodes.

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