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The user administration panel

This is where NAV administrator can control NAV user accounts, group memberships and access privileges.

Account list

The main view of the user administration panel shows the account list. Each user has a login (username) and a real name. If the source of the user is based on LDAP, the external column will indicate this. The final column listes the number of groups the user belongs to.

  • To edit the settings for an account, click on the username in question.
  • To create a new account, press “Create new account”

:!: A fresh NAV installation will only have one account; admin with membership to the NAV administrator group. User admin has password set to admin. This should be changed at your first login.

Creating a new account (using Account Details)

Note: The procedure is the same for editing the values of an existing account, the same buttons to tweek.

The new user must be given a unique login and password that confirms. Next you may:

  • Delete the account
  • Add the user to one or more organizations. In turn remove the user from one or more organizations. The organizations are picked from the list you create in the organization section of Edit Database. Please note that organizational membership of a NAV user has no effect in terms of privileges or such (this is on the road map, way up ahead).
  • Add the user to one or more groups (use the Add button). In turn remove the user from one or more groups (with the Remove button). Each group has a set of privileges, more below. The user will get the union of privileges of the groups he joins.

Note: A new user will be given implicit membership to the groups “authenticated users” and “anonymous users”. If you do not tweak on group membership, that will be his/hers set of rights. This also goes for users created with LDAP.

Group List

NAV comes with the following predefined groups:

Group Description Comment
Anonymous users Unauthenticated users (not logged in) Everyone are implicit members
Authenticated users Any authenticated user (logged in) New users are implicit members
NAV Administrators Full access to everything
SMS Allowed to receive SMS alerts
  • To create new groups, simply follow the “Create new group” link.
  • To modify an existing group, click on the group.
useradminpanel.1191234739.txt.gz · Last modified: 2007/10/01 10:32 by faltin