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82 Chapter 6 Managing Users
About User Accounts
User accounts on your server allow users to gain access to services provided by the
server. A user account contains the information needed to prove the user’s identity for
all services that require authentication. A user account also provides a centralized place
to store a user’s contact information and other data.
Each user account has an email address, an iChat instant messaging address, a personal
calendar, and a My Page wiki portal. User accounts can also have access to wikis, blogs,
web calendars, a server-based address book, the server’s shared les, and Time Machine
backup storage, and they can use VPN to access the server remotely. Users can be
members of groups, authorizing them to access group shared folders and group wikis.
Of course, if any of these services isn’t turned on, then users don’t have access to it.
You can add user accounts in the Users pane of Server Preferences by:
Creating new accounts Â
Importing existing accounts, if your organization has a directory server that your Â
server is connected to
You can import user accounts individually. You can also automatically import all user
accounts that are members of a group.
User Accounts in Your Server’s Directory
New user accounts you create are stored in your server’s directory. You can use Server
Preferences to create and edit them.