Create and manage user accounts and account groups with the User Accounts and Groups task.
Accounts and account groups:
Define user access to the devices that MVP manages.
Limit user access to specific tasks.
Organize accounts into account groups.
Distribute a range of privileges across a number of accounts.
| Note: Adding accounts is not required, but creating an administrator account ensures the security of your devices. |
To create an administrator account with full privileges, you must also create at least one user account. MVP will prompt you to create a user account after an administrator account is completed.
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select User Accounts and Groups from the All Tasks list.
From the User Accounts tab, click Add.
Type an administrator account name and password.
Administrator accounts require an authentic user ID and password specific to MVP.
Confirm the password by typing it again.
The indicator light to the right of the text box turns green when the two passwords match.
Click Finish, then the Creating a User Account dialog appears.
| Note: At this time you must create at least one user account or the administrator account will be canceled. |
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select User Accounts and Groups from the All Tasks list.
From the User Accounts tab, click Add.
Type an account name and password.
Notes:
Confirm the password by typing it again.
The indicator light to the right of the text box turns green when the two passwords match.
Click Next.
Select the privileges that will be available to the account from the Available Privileges window.
Click the > button to add or the < button to remove the selected privileges, and then click Next.
| Note: Click the >> button to add all privileges or the << button to remove all privileges. |
Select the device folders that will be available to the user.
Click Next or Finish.
Assigning users to groups ensures that accounts are configured uniformly. Task privileges assigned to the groups will be available to all users in the group.
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select User Accounts and Groups from the All Tasks list.
From the User Groups tab, click Add.
Enter a group name.
Select the user accounts that belong to this group.
Click Next.
Select the privileges that will be available to the account from the Available Privileges window.
Click the > button to add or the < button to remove the selected privileges, and then click Next.
| Note: Click the >> button to add all privileges or the << button to remove all privileges. |
Select the device folders that will be available to the user.
Click Next or Finish.
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select User Accounts and Groups from the All Tasks list.
From the User Accounts or User Groups area, select an account or group, and then click Edit.
From the User Accounts area type the account name and password, or from the User Groups area, select or clear the check box next to the user name to add or remove the user from a group.
Click Next.
Select the privileges that will be available to the account from the Available Privileges window.
Click the > button to add or the < button to remove the selected privileges, and then click Next.
| Note: Click the >> button to add all privileges or the << button to remove all privileges. |
Select the device folders that will be available to the user.
Click Next or Finish.
To remove a user account or group:
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select User Accounts and Groups from the All Tasks list.
Select the account or group that you want to remove, and then click Remove.
| Note: If prompted, specify Yes to Remove the account or group. |
If the Confirm Account and Group Deletion setting is enabled under Personal Settings task, type your user account and password into the confirmation prompt, and then click OK. If a password is not required, click OK.
| Note: Removing groups may affect user access rights. You cannot recover a group once it has been removed. |
An administrator account must exist before MVP user accounts can be created. The administrator is authorized to perform all MVP tasks on all devices. If no accounts are created, all MVP users have authorization to perform all tasks. For non-administrator accounts, user privileges and accessible devices are either defined by the parameters specified when the user account was created, or the group assigned to the user.
If active session expiration has been enabled, and a MarkVision Client session remains idle for a specified period of time, a dialog appears prompting the user to re-enter their password to regain access to the application. Active session expiration helps to prevent unauthorized users from accessing a MarkVision Client that is left unattended.
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select Administrative Settings from the All Tasks list.
From the Intervals tab of the dialog, specify the active session expiration interval in minutes.
To remove active session expiration, select Never from the “Active session expiration interval (minutes)” area.
Click OK.
To reduce the likelihood of compromised passwords, administrators can set a password expiration interval for user accounts. After a specified amount of time, a user account password will become invalid, forcing users to change their MVP passwords. Account password expiration applies to all users with the exception of the administrator, unless LDAP Server authentication has been enabled. If LDAP Server authentication is enabled, account password expiration will not be enabled, and password security will depend on the existing password security and network protocols.
| Note: To eliminate the need for the administrator to change each user account password for every expiration interval, make the Change Password task available to all users. |
From the MarkVision Professional Home screen, select Administrative Settings from the All Tasks list.
From the Intervals section of the dialog, specify the account password expiration interval in days.
To remove the password expiration interval, select Never.
Click Apply, and then click OK.