Administrators create users, assign them to roles, and optionally define attributes for them. The interface in JasperReports Server for managing users and roles makes it easy to search among hundreds of users and roles and edit their properties.

Attributes are name-value pairs that can be defined on users and at the server level. These values can provide flexibility, for example allowing each user to access a different database when using the same data source. Attributes can provide data-level security when combined with the features of Domains and OLAP.

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