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7
Managing User Accounts
This chapter describes how to grant access to users on your system. It tells you
how to add and maintain user accounts, and it describes the privileges that you
can give and the resources that you can allocate to the users on your system. It
also describes the system management features of the OpenVMS Mail utility
(MAIL).
Information Provided in This Chapter
This chapter describes the following tasks:
Task Section
Managing system-supplied UAF accounts Section 7.4
Preparing to add user accounts Section 7.5
Adding user accounts Section 7.6
Using command procedures for interactive accounts Section 7.7.1
Modifying a user account Section 7.7.2
Listing user accounts Section 7.7.3
Maintaining the user environment Section 7.7.4
Deleting a user account Section 7.7.5
Restricting the use of accounts Section 7.8
Using login procedures for restricted accounts Section 7.8.5
Setting up special accounts Section 7.9
Managing Mail Section 7.10
Managing system resources Section 7.11
This chapter explains the following concepts:
Concept Section
Understanding the user authorization file Section 7.1
Understanding the protection of authorization files Section 7.2
Understanding UAF login checks Section 7.3
Understanding system-supplied UAF accounts Section 7.4.1
Understanding account security Section 7.5.3
Understanding network proxy accounts Section 7.9.3
Understanding pages and pagelets Section 7.11.1
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