About user accounts
The administrator creates, configures, and manages user accounts. Administrator tasks include assigning and updating privileges, creating and managing membership in security roles, and providing access to channels. During installation, the installer configures the Administrator user account.
User privileges control access to the Encyclopedia volume and its items. Security roles are groups of users who share the same privileges. A channel is a service that provides a subscribing user access to particular types of documents.
A user accesses an Encyclopedia volume by using a unique login name and password. The administrator has full access to the volume and can change any user password. A user can change only his or her password.
In Management Console, the administrator chooses Users to view and configure user properties, as shown in
Figure 2‑1.
Figure 2‑1 Viewing Users
In Users, the administrator performs the following tasks:
Create a new user account.
Update an existing user account.
Subscribe a user to a channel.
Clone a user.
Delete a user.
View, filter, or search the list of current user accounts.
The following sections describe how to perform these tasks.
