Administrator roles

A Super Administrator can create several delegated administrators with a variety of roles and permissions on the page Settings > Administrators > Roles. When creating roles for delegated administrators, you specify the users or groups managed by the role along with the permissions associated with the role, before assigning an administrator to that role. An administrator may be assigned to only one role at a time.

Note:

Managed users and user groups settings are used only for the following permissions:

  • Policies
  • Reports
  • Queues and quarantined messages

A user’s view of the Email Security module interface is different, depending on that user’s specific administrator role. For example, a user with an Auditor role can view the entire Email Security module interface, but cannot modify any settings.

By default, a new Email Security module-specific administrator account is an Auditor account. A Super Administrator can use the following steps to change an administrator’s role:

Note: Only one Super Administrator may access an email appliance at a time. Subsequent Super Administrators are assigned an Auditor (or read-only) role when they access the appliance.