Initial Access Control Settings

When you install portal server, the installation program will ask you for administrative user name. That user will become administrator of the portal. In addition to that the installation program will also create administrative group usually wpsadmins that group will get Administrative role on the portal.

This is set of permissions that portal installation program will assign

• Administrative User: Gets unlimited access on all resources


• Administrative Group(wpsadmins): Same as that of administrative user


• All Authenticated Portal User: Gets User or Privileged User rights on preinstalled portlets and some of the pages that get created as part of install process


• Anonymous Portal User: Gets User rights on public pages such as login, selfcare, sitemap,..

Take a look at Initial Access Control Settings for further information on what all rights are assigned to various user/groups during portal install