User guide

230 DSView Installer/User Guide
NOTE: There may be multiple authentication services in your system. All authentication services in your DSView
system will appear in the Select Authentication Service window.
• Active Directory - An external authentication service (purchased separately)
• DSView Internal - The internal DSView software authentication service that validates
users against database tables in the authenticating DSView Server. The DSView Internal
authentication service is always available.
• LDAP - An external authentication service (purchased separately)
• NT - An external authentication service (purchased separately). The NT authentication
service requires the Microsoft Win32 platform.
See Managing Authentication Services on page 72 for information on adding an
authentication service.
a. Select an authentication service.
b. Click Next.
If you selected DSView Internal as the authentication service, continue to step 3.
If you selected any other type of authentication service, go to step 4.
3. The Type in User Credentials window will appear.
a. Type a username, password and confirm the password of the DSView user you are adding.
If you wish for the DSView user to set their own password when they log in to the
DSView software, click User must change password at next login.
NOTE: Usernames may be up to 64 non-case-sensitive characters long and cannot contain the @ symbol.
Usernames are case-preserving. For example, if an account named JDoe is created, it will be saved as JDoe in
the DSView Server, but a DSView user may log in as JDoe, jdoe, JDOe and so on.
NOTE: Passwords may be 3-64 characters long. By default, passwords must contain at least three characters.
Passwords will never expire unless User must change password at next login is selected in the Unit Password
window, or Passwords Expire information is specified in the Authentication Service User Account Policies
window. A DSView Administrator may specify a different minimum character length and modify expiration criteria.
See Modifying authentication services on page 87 for more information.
a. Click Next.
Go to step 6.
4. The Specify User Name window will appear.
a. Click Specify user on external authentication service and type the name of the user in
the field.
NOTE: Usernames may be up to 64 characters long and may not contain the @ symbol. Usernames may or may
not be case-sensitive, depending on the requirements of your external authentication server.
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Click Find user on external authentication service to browse a list of users on the external
authentication service.