User Accounts

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User Accounts

User Accounts is a tool to manage user login to DataSpiderServer and group which user belongs to.

About the concept of users and groups, refer to "User Management".

Functions provided by User Accounts

User Accounts provides the following functions.

Description of Functions

Name of functions	Description	Remarks
User Accounts	List all users and groups All Users and groups managed by the system are listed when User Accounts is launched.
New user	Creates a new user.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.
Modify user information	The settings of users can be changed.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.
Delete User	Deletes user account.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.
Change User Password	Changes user password.
New Group	Creates a new group.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.
Modify group information	Changes the settings of the group.	Can be operated only by the users with administrative privileges and the owner of the group.
Delete Group	Deletes group.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

User Accounts

Description of items

Item name		Description	Remarks
User list	User name	Name of the user.
	Primary group	The primary group the user belongs to.	Primary group is a group that is initially displayed in [Group] attribute of files and folders
	Group	Group to which the user belongs.	If the user belongs to two or more groups, each group is divided with a comma.
Group list	Group name	Name of the group.
	Date created	The date and time the group was created.
	Date modified	The date and time the group was last modified.

New user

Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Add	Creates a new user.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
User name	Enter the name of any user.	Maximum string length is 64byte. See "Restrictions on characters used in the names of users and groups" for any restrictions on the usages of characters in user names.
Initial password	Enter the password when logging.	String length limit can be configured. This item is displayed as [Password] on Studio for Web.
Re-enter initial password	Re-enter password when logging.	This item is displayed as [Password (Repeat)] on Studio for Web.
Primary group	Specify the groups that created user belong to.	The default value is "users". Primary group is a group that is initially displayed in [Group] attribute of files and folders.
User Description	Give a description of the user.	For Studio for Web only

Modify user information

Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

Any changes made to the user's settings become effective when the user logs in.
In order for the changes to become effective, user needs to be logged off from Studio and log in again.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Properties	Edits the user information.	This item is displayed as [Edit] on Studio for Web.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Primary group	Change the user's primary group.	Primary group is, for example, when you create file or folder, group which is initially shown in [Group] of property.
User's description	Enter a description of the user.	When updating the user, this value is required.
Change password	Change the password for the user.
Initial settings of access permissions	Change initial settings of access permissions of directory or file which are created by users. [Read] File: Files can be referenced. Directory: Entries of the directory can be referenced. [Write] File: Files can be written. Directory: Files or directories within this directory can be created, renamed, and deleted.	An access privilege determines to what extent a user, group, or others may operate on resources. This item is displayed as [Initial File Permission Settings] on Studio for Web.
New Password	Specify a new password for the user.	There is no restrictions on the length of the string specified. For Studio for Web only
New Password (Repeat)	Enter a new password for the user.	For Studio for Web only

Delete User

Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

See "Deleting users" for any specification limitations imposed when deleting a user.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Delete	Deletes user account.

Change User Password

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Change password	Changes login user password.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Current password	Specify user's current password.
New password	Specify a new password for the user.
Confirm new password	Enter the new password again.	This item is displayed as [New Password (Repeat)] on Studio for Web.

New Group

Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Group name	Enter the name of any group.	Maximum string length is 64byte. See "Restrictions on characters used in the names of users and groups" for any restrictions on the usages of characters in group names.
Description	Provide a description of the group.

Modify group information

Can be operated only by the users with administrative privileges and the owner of the group.

Any changes made to the group's settings become effective when the user logs in.
In order for the changes to become effective, user needs to be logged off from Studio and log in again.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Properties	Edits the group information.	This item is displayed as [Edit] on Studio for Web.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Group user	Change the user group. This can be done by moving users from the [Non-group user] to the [Group user] arbitrarily.	Can be operated only by the users with administrative privileges and the owner of the group.
Group description	Change the description of the group.	Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.
Owner of group	Change the owner of the group. Specify a user as the owner of the group by the checking the corresponding checkbox.	Can be operated only by the users with administrative privileges and the owner of the group.

Delete Group

Can only be executed by users with administrator privileges.

See Deleting groups for any specification limitations imposed when deleting a group.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Delete	Deletes group.

Specification limit

Restrictions on the characters of user and group names
- You can not change user name.
- Single-byte, double-byte alphanumeric characters and Japanese can be used.
- Other characters which are not allowed to use in DataSpider system files can not be used.
  For more information, please refer to "Restrictions on characters used in DataSpider File System".
- About discrimination between upper case and lower case, refer to " Case-sensitivity ".
About deleting users
- root user can not be deleted.
- If you delete a user, the user's home directory (/home/<username>) and FTP user's home directory (/ftp/<username>) are not removed.
  Please delete it manually.
- If you delete a user, global resource, projects and trigger which user create will remain.
  Please delete by root user.
- If you delete a user, the service user registers will remain.
  Please delete it from My Services .
About Deleting a Group
- Default group (root, users) can not be deleted.
- You can not delete a a group user belong to .Please delete users then delete the group.

Notes

When you delete user or change password, need to change the setting of trigger that specifies user and password and of ScriptRunner, ScriptRunnerProxy.