Managing users

The Users system resource lets you define how individual users employ the resources in the Novera EPIC environment. Each time you want to allow a new user to access the Novera EPIC environment, you must assign the new user a user login. Every client or service must have a user login to connect to a Novera EPIC Kernel. The attributes of a user login control who can enter the Novera EPIC environment, which clients and services the user can use, and when the user can use the assigned clients and services. The user login also identifies the directories, files, and printers a user can access.

When a client or service logs on, the Novera EPIC Kernel assigns a connection to a user session. You can interact with user sessions through the Monitor page.

To create a user login

1. On the Resources page, click the Users icon.

2. In the Resource menu, click Create New Resource Instance.

3. Click the General property sheet.

4. Type user information in the following boxes. You must type information into each box.

nov00000.gif First Name

nov00000.gif Last Name

nov00000.gif Login ID, which cannot contain blank spaces

nov00000.gif Password

nov00000.gif Confirm Password

nov00000.gif Email is the email address of the user

nov00000.gif Home Directory Name, which identifies the directory the user can access. The directory must be accessible by the Novera EPIC Kernel you specify

nov00000.gif Home Directory Path, which identifies the fully-qualified path of the home directory

nov00000.gif Home Directory Kernel, which identifies the Novera EPIC Kernel that is supporting access to the home directory

nov00000.gif IP Address, which is the Internet Protocol address of the user’s host computer

nov00000.gif Postal Address

nov00000.gif Zip Code

nov00000.gif Telephone

nov00000.gif Fax

To modify a user login

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Users icon.

2. Click the user you wish to modify.

3. Click the General property sheet.

4. Modify the user login attributes. You cannot modify the first name or the last name.

nov00000.gif Login ID, which cannot contain blank spaces

nov00000.gif Password

nov00000.gif Confirm Password

nov00000.gif Email

nov00000.gif Home Directory Name, which identifies the directory the user can access. The directory must be accessible by the Novera EPIC Kernel you specify

nov00000.gif Home Directory Path identifies the fully-qualified path of the home directory.

nov00000.gif Home Directory Kernel, which identifies the Novera EPIC Kernel that is supporting access to the home directory

nov00000.gif IP Address, which is the Internet Protocol address of the user’s host machine

nov00000.gif Postal Address

nov00000.gif Zip Code

nov00000.gif Telephone

nov00000.gif Fax

To delete a user login

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Users icon.

2. Click the user you wish to delete.

3. In the Resource menu, click Delete Resource Instance.

To assign a user to a group

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Users icon.

2. Click the user you wish to add to a group.

3. Click the General property sheet.

4. Click the group you wish to add the user to in the Groups Not Containing User box.

5. Click the Add To Selected Groups button.

To remove a user from a group

1. On the Resources page, double-click the Users icon.

2. Click the user you wish to remove from a group.

3. Click the Groups property sheet.

4. Click the group you wish to remove the user from in the Groups Containing User box.

5. Click the Remove From Selected Groups button.

Displaying group resources

When you add a user to a group, you give that user access to the resources of the group. The group’s Resources property sheet displays all of the resources available to the members of the group.

You cannot modify the information on the Resources page. You can, however, change the order of the information by clicking the heading of any column. For example, clicking the Licenses heading displays the information alphabetically by license.

The Resources property sheet contains the following columns:

nov00000.gif T contains the icon that represents a resource.

nov00000.gif Resource is the name of the resource.

nov00000.gif Read shows whether or not the user has read permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Write shows whether or not the user has write permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Exec shows whether or not the user has execute permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Del shows whether or not the user has delete permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Creat shows whether or not the user has create permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Conn shows whether or not the user has connect permission to the resource.

nov00000.gif Licenses shows the number of user licenses available for the resource.

Tips

nov00000.gif After you make changes on the property sheet, you must click either the Reset button or the Apply button before you move to another resource. Reset cancels the changes you made, while Apply saves the changes.

nov00000.gif To select multiple groups, hold down Shift and select the desired groups with the arrow keys.

nov00001.gif Related topics

The system resources

Managing Novera EPIC Kernels

Managing groups

Managing applications

Managing network services

Managing file systems

Managing printers