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User accounts
This page allows you to manage up to sixteen separate accounts.
The first of the sixteen accounts is the admin account and is the only account
with access rights to the configuration menus. The user name and access rights
are fixed for the admin account, the only change possible for this account is the
password.
There are fifteen user account positions.
To create a new user account
1 Enter the required User Name to activate
that position (the Enter Password button
and access tick box positions will become
editable).
2 Optionally click the Enter Password button
to create a password for the user account.
3 Tick/untick the Local, Remote and Power
options that are appropriate to the user.
4 Click the Save button to register your
changes.
User Name
All user names must consist of lower case characters or numbers only. No
symbols or upper case characters are permissible. The user name can be
between 1 and 32 characters in length but cannot contain foreign characters.
Enter/Change Password
Click the adjacent button to add or edit a password. Passwords are case
sensitive and can include certain keyboard symbols but cannot contain foreign
characters. The password can be between 1 and 16 characters in length. A
suitable password is best constructed using a mixture of more than 6 letters,
numbers and punctuation characters.
Local
When ticked, the selected user can gain access using the local KVM console
directly connected to the AdderView CATxIP 5000 unit.
Remote
When ticked, the selected user can gain access via an IP network link (such as a
local intranet or the wider Internet, depending on how the AdderView CATxIP
5000 is connected) and/or Console Server access.
Power
When ticked, the selected user will be permitted to control the power input to
host systems (requires optional power control switch unit(s) to be fitted).
IsAdmin
When ticked, the selected user will be given access to the administrator level
configuration menus and will also have the ability to force a host computer
connection to be shared if another user has selected a private session.
Menu Bar
Allows the contents and position of the buttons in the Menu bar (top of screen)
to be configured on a per user basis. See
Editing the viewer window menu
bar
for more details.
Enable Password Hashing
This enables the storing of passwords in an encrypted format, which provides
added security. It is particularly useful in combination with adder.net as it allows
adder.net to set the password for users directly in its encrypted format.
To get here
1 Using VNC viewer or a browser, log on as the ‘admin’ user.
2 Click the ‘Configure’ button in the top right corner.
3 Click the ‘User Accounts’ option.
To disable the admin user
If necessary it is possible
to disable the admin user
account:
1 Create an alternative user
account.
2 Tick IsAdmin for that user.
3 Log on as that user.
4 Untick the Local and
Remote boxes for the
admin user.