Adding Users Under Local Authentication; Adding Users Manually; Adding Users Correctly; Adding Groups - TANDBERG S3 Administrator's Manual

User Management (continued)
Adding Users (II)

Adding Users Under Local Authentication

If Local authentication is selected in Site
local users can log in to the Content Server.
Firstly, you need to ensure that local user accounts
have been created on the Content Server. You can
create local user accounts from the Windows Server
administration site in the Administrator Settings
menu.
These users then need to be added to the Content
Server database by entering their usernames on the
Add Users page. Please note that adding local groups
is not supported.
Local usernames must be entered in this format:
MACHINENAME\user.name:Display Name(optional)

Adding Users Manually

LDAP/Active Directory users need to be added
manually through the Add Users page before they can
log in if:
•
Domain or LDAP authentication is selected in
Settings,
and
•
Allow Guest Access is selected in Site
Adding users under Domain authentication:
•
Users must be entered in this format:
DOMAINNAME\user.name or DOMAINNAME\user.
name:Display name
Adding users under LDAP authentication:
•
Users must be entered in this format: user.name
or user.name:Display name
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Groups always need to be added manually
through the Add Users page.
LDAP/Active Directory groups must be
entered in this format:
Site
@group.name
Please note that although a group is added
in this format, @group.name, both the group
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name and its base DN are displayed in the
User Management page.
When adding a group, all members of that
group will be automatically added to the
Content Server on login with the privileges
you assigned to the group, if
authentication is selected in
and regardless of whether or not

Adding Users or Groups Under Domain or LDAP Authentication

When Domain or LDAP authentication
users or groups can log in to the Content Server.
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Adding Users Correctly

Adding Groups

Access is selected in Site
If you add a group with
members of that group log in to the Content
Server, their accounts will be automatically
created. The User Role
name in the User Management
appear to be User, but they will have
Owner privileges inherited from their group
membership.
If you want all members of the group to be
Users or Owners, but some members of
the group need administrative privileges,
you can change the User Role
Domain or LDAP
members to Admin. The highest user role will
Site Settings,
be applied.
Allow Guest
is selected in Site Settings, LDAP/Active Directory
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Users need to be added to the user database
on the Content Server in order to log in. To add
users, enter one user name per line, or user
names separated by a semicolon.

Adding Users Automatically

Settings. All users with valid accounts on the Domain or
LDAP server will be added automatically upon
Owner privileges, as
login if:
•
Domain or LDAP authentication
next to their user
in Site Settings
page will
and
•
Allow Guest Access
Settings.
Users added automatically will only have
privileges to view conferences they are
authorized to view (their user role will be
for these
User). Administrators can give users special
privileges by changing their role to
Administrator).
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is selected
is deselected in Site
Owner or
View
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