Managing User Accounts / Creating Local Accounts |
Administrators can create IBM Aspera Shares user accounts that are automatically added to the local database. For DS users, see Importing DS Users. After creating local users you can add them to a local Shares group.
Tab | Description |
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Detail |
Update the local user's name, username, and email address, or delete the local user from Shares. |
Member of |
Add this user to a local group by selecting one from the drop-down list. Only local groups that have been added to Shares appear on this list. Note: You cannot add local users to a DS group, only to
local groups. For instructions on configuring DS users,
see Importing DS Users.
After adding a local user to a local group, you can click Edit to modify the group's settings, or click Remove to delete the user from the group. Clicking Edit takes you to local group's configuration page. See Adding Local Groups for details on modifying a local group's settings. |
Security |
You can update the following security settings:
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Shares |
Click Add Share to authorize specific shares for the local user to access. If this user belongs to a local group, and the group has access to a share, that share is listed here because permission to access the share is inherited from the group. A list of nodes and shares appears. Click Authorize to authorize a share. You can modify the local user's permissions for browsing, transferring, and performing file operations within it. The default permission is browse. If browse is not selected, the local user is only able to access functions if the user has been made an API user To edit these permissions or disallow the local user's access to the share, click edit. Select permissions that the local user has for the authorized share. After modifying the settings, click Update. You may disallow access to this share by clicking Delete. |
Preferences |
Select a timezone and input any comments. |
Transfer Setting |
You can override settings of Shares and groups, if the user belongs to a group, by implementing transfer settings specifically for this user. Click Override these settings to make transfer settings changes in the enabled text boxes. Transfer settings include the following:
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Activity |
View and search for Shares activities by this user. |