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Additional right of machine administrators
A user who is a member of the Administrators group on a machine can view and manage any
archives created
from that machine
in a managed vault—regardless of the type of that user's account
on the storage node.
Example
Suppose that two users on a machine, UserA and UserB, perform backups from this machine to a
centralized vault managed by a storage node. On the storage node, let these users have regular (non-
administrative) accounts UserA_SN and UserB_SN, respectively.
Normally, UserA can access only the archives created by UserA (and owned by UserA_SN), and UserB
can access only the archives created by UserB (and owned by UserB_SN).
However, if UserA is a member of the Administrators group on the machine, this user can
additionally access the archives created from this machine by UserB—even though UserA's account
on the storage node is a regular one.
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Rights for Acronis services
The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management
Server, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node components run as services. When installing
any of these components, you need to specify the account under which the component's service will
run.
For each service, you can either create a dedicated user account (recommended in most cases) or
specify an existing account of a local or domain user—for example: .\LocalUser or
DomainName\DomainUser.
If you choose to create dedicated user accounts for the services, the setup program will create the
following user accounts:
For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows service, Acronis Agent User
For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server service, AMS User
For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node service, ASN User
The newly created accounts are given the following privileges:
All three accounts are assigned the Log on as a service user right.
The Acronis Agent User user account is assigned the Adjust memory quotas for a process and
Replace a process level token user rights.
The Acronis Agent User and ASN User user accounts are included in the Backup Operators group.
The AMS User user account is included in the Acronis Centralized Admins group.
The setup program will assign the above listed user rights to any existing account you specify for a
corresponding service.
If you choose to specify an existing user account for the agent service or the storage node service,
make sure that this account is a member of the Backup Operators group, before proceeding with the
installation.
If you choose to specify an existing user account for the management server service, this account will
be added to the Acronis Centralized Admins group automatically.
