Owner's Manual

70 Security
The User Manager has these controls:
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New — Opens a dialog where you can add new users to the system. See Adding or Modifying a
User on page 71 for more information.
NOTE:
Best practice is to add new users rather than making changes to administrative privileges.
- Open — Opens an edit dialog populated with the information for the selected user. See Adding
or Modifying a User on page 71 for more information.
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Delete —Removes the selected user from the list (and the application).
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Disable — Prevents the selected user from logging on to the application by setting the user’s
Expiration Date to the current date.
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Unlock — Releases the lock on the selected user. (Locks are indicated by an entry in the Locked
Out
field.) Users are locked out if they try to log in with an incorrect password too many times
(default = 4). When this happens the date and time of lock out appears in the
Locked out
column. Administrators can configure the number of attempts allowed users before they are
locked out (see Login Policy on page 100).
Unless otherwise configured, locked-out users cannot gain entry into the system until an
administrator releases their locks. Unlocking a locked-out user lets the user’s previous
password work. Lock out lasts for a configurable amount of time (see Lockout Period on page
102), and by default, the lockout eventually expires regardless of whether an admin unlocks
the account.
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Reset Password — Checks the Force Password Change checkbox in the user editor. This requires
the selected user to change the password on the next login.
NOTE:
OWAdmin without any password exists by default as an alternative user with administrative privileges. If
you want your installation to be extremely secure, delete this user, but understand that you will have to
re-install if other, authorized administrators cannot log in for some reason.
- Print — Create an Acrobat file of the users that appear in the (filtered) list. You must have the
free Acrobat reader installed for this work correctly.
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Help — Opens the online help for this screen.
Default Users
Installation automatically seeds the following users
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OWMedServer —An internal user (principal) used by the system. You can neither log in with this
account nor delete it.
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OWPublic —An internal user that provides base permissions across all users. You can neither log
in with this account nor delete it.