BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Managing aliases

If a user has multiple accounts in BusinessObjects Enterprise, you can link the accounts using the assign alias feature. This is useful when a user has a third-party account that is mapped to Enterprise and an Enterprise account.

By assigning an alias to the user, the user can log on using either a third-party user name and password or an Enterprise user name and password. Thus, an alias enables a user to log on via more than one authentication type.

You can also reassign an alias in BusinessObjects Enterprise. For example, after you map your third-party accounts to BusinessObjects Enterprise, you can use the Reassign Alias feature to reassign an alias to a different a user.

In CMC, the alias information is displayed at the bottom of the properties page for a user. A user can have any combination of BusinessObjects Enterprise, LDAP, AD, or NT aliases.

Managing aliases includes:

• Creating a user and a third-party alias
• Creating an alias for an existing user
• Assigning an alias
• Reassigning an alias
• Deleting an alias
• Disabling an aliases