A global user is a repository user who is found in all members of a repository federation and whose property values are the same in all of the repositories. Global users are managed through the governing repository. If you add a global user to the governing repository, that user is added to all the member repositories by a federation job that synchronizes the repositories.

To create a global user, connect to the governing repository of a federation and create the user there. Check User is global to make the user global. Use the instructions in Creating users to create the user.

To modify the properties of a global user, connect to the governing repository.

Global users can also have local properties, which you can modify in a local repository.