Specify Access Using Permissions Manager

To prevent a user from changing a setting, you set the permission level for that setting or control to "Restricted." When a setting is restricted, administrative access is required to change the setting. For example, you could restrict the user's ability to modify security settings.

You can lock down access by running Permissions Manager (without using the Installation Customization Tool) to edit .access files. If you use this approach, be sure to deploy the customized .access files to the correct directory.

To set access with Permissions Manager

1. On a workstation on which you have installed Reflection, log on as administrator and in the Reflection Desktop install folder, run AccessConfig.exe.

2. When prompted to create a new permission file, or edit an existing one, choose Create new permission file.

3. When prompted with a list of access file templates, choose the type of permission file to create.

4. Under Groups, select the type of setting to control access to (for example, the Document\Connection\TN3270Basic group).

5. In the Items box, in the Accessibility field for the item (or items) you want to restrict, click Full and then select Restricted from the drop down menu.

6. If you are configuring rd3x.access, rd5x.access, or rdox.access files, under Additional security options, select how to control session file encryption:

   To do this	Select
   Configure all sessions so that users can open only encrypted display session files.	User can open only encrypted session files
   Configure all sessions so that users can save a display session only if it is encrypted.	User can save only encrypted session files

7. Be sure to deploy the .access files to the correct directory as shown in Package Sessions and Custom Settings Files:

   To deploy settings that are user-specific, deploy the .access files to: [AppDataFolder\]\Micro Focus\Reflection\Desktop\v18.0.

   where [AppDataFolder] is the full path of the Roaming folder for the current user. The default is C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\.

   To deploy settings for all users of a machine, deploy the .access files to: [CommonAppDataFolder]\Micro Focus\Reflection\Desktop\v18.0.

   where [CommonAppDataFolder] is the full path to application data for all users. The default is C:\ProgramData.

   note

   Only actions.access, application.access, and security.access files can be deployed to all users.