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Administrator’s Guide
Creating local users and groups 55
Creating local users and groups
This section describes how to create local accounts that you can assign to exception policies. This
section contains the following topics:
Creating local user accounts ............................................................... 55
Creating local groups.......................................................................... 55
Creating IP address groups................................................................. 55
Creating local user accounts
Use the USERS/GROUPS > New Users page to create new users that the Barracuda Web Filter will
authenticate locally from its database. If you want users to be authenticated using your existing user
authentication service instead, go to the
Authentication Services page and enter the information for
your authentication server.
Note:
Local user accounts cannot be used to log into the administration interface. You can only use
the default admin account to log into the administration interface.
If you want a new user account to be a member of a group, be sure the group already exists. If you
need to create a group, go to the
USERS/GROUPS > Local Groups page.
Creating local groups
Use the USERS/GROUPS > Local Groups page to create groups for your local users. The most
common reason to create a group is so you can apply an exception policy to multiple users at the same
time instead of to individual users.
To create a group, enter the group name in the provided field and click
Add.
To assign an existing user to this group, go to the
Accounts View page and click Edit next to the
account that you want to join the group. A user can belong to multiple groups.
Creating IP address groups
The USERS/GROUPS > IP page lets you create a group for a single or range of IP addresses. The most
common reasons to create an IP group is to apply an exception policy to:
• Multiple users on the same subnet. In this case, enter the subnet mask for the subnet in the
provided field.
• A static IP address. In this case, enter the static IP address in the provided field.
After you enter the IP address or subnet mask and click
Add, you can assign an exception policy to
the IP group on the
BLOCK/ACCEPT > Exceptions page.