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# View the local user details or authorized users and groups details

User authorization is a method for restricting the management operations that users can perform on a storage system.

## About this task

See Roles and associated permissions for an overview of the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) functionality.

## Steps

To see more information about a user, do one of the following:

- Click in the title bar, and select View Profile.
- - Select to open the Settings panel.
  - Select Users and Groups > Local Users or Users and Groups > Authorized Users & Groups
  - Select the user, hover over the row, and click to open the user details view.

The following properties display:

- Name—User or group name
- Type—Type
- Authority—Authentication authority - possible values are:
  - Local Directory—Directory of users and encrypted passwords that are stored in a CST .xml file (users only, no groups)
  - Windows OS—Local Windows users and groups
  - Windows AD—Windows Active Directory users and groups that are accessed through the SMAS server domain
  - LDAP-SSL—Users and groups on LDAP server that have been configured the Configure Authorization wizard
- Domain—Domain name - possible values are based on the authentication authority:

  Table 1. Domain name values
  Authority | Domain name
  --- | ---
  Local directory Windows operating system | Unisphere server hostname
  Windows AD | Unisphere server domain
  LDAP-SSL | LDAP server domain
  Virtualization domain | Virtualization domain
  Any authority | Any

- System—Storage systems associated with the user
- Roles—Roles associated with the user
- Component Name—Component name - an example of a component is a storage group instance.