Special Roles

The ArcGIS Managed Authentication based on Tokens provides certain special roles for your convenience that you can use to apply permissions on your GIS Services or Folders. These roles have a special significance to the security infrastructure (ArcGIS Managed). They are not present within the Security Store.

Anonymous

Allowing this role access to a resource will mean that any un-named user can access the resource (without providing any credentials). There will be no challenge for accessing this resource.

Authenticated

Allowing this role access to a resource will enforce that only named users (users who can provide a valid credential) can access the resource.

Everyone

Allowing this role access to a resource will mean that any user (anonymous or authenticated) can access the resource.

Note**: These special roles can only be used with ArcGIS Managed Authentication for GIS Services. If the authentication scheme for your services is Java EE Managed then these special roles will have no meaning to the web server in which your service handlers are deployed.

Note**: If you have connected to a role store that has roles with identical names (to the special roles) then you can rename the special roles by configuring the corresponding properties in the manager_config.properties file under ArcGIS/java/manager/service/lib directory.

Note**: You cannot add a role that has the same name as any of these special roles to the role store. Incase of conflicts, please rename these special roles.