Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration

SharePoint Users

Most security models assume the existence of users and groups of users. Different users require different sets of permissions to perform their work, depending on the level of access to data in the system. In a previous section of this chapter, we visited the topic of SharePoint administrators—an administrator is a specific type of user with elevated permissions within the SharePoint farm or site collection.

At the basic level, a user of SharePoint is an “identity.” User identity typically consists of various attributes that describe the user with access to the SharePoint site collection. SharePoint 2010 retains minimal information about a user to distinguish one user from another, which typically involves the username, password, ...