Creating and Deleting Administrative Accounts and Groups

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Administrative login must be unique.

Administrators are not allowed to connect via external authentication systems if an administrator with the same login already exists at the Server.

Adding Administrators

To create administrative account, administrator must have Create administrators, administrative groups permission.

To add a new administrative account

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of the Control Center and in the opened windows, select the Administrators item in the control menu.

2.Click the Create account icon in the toolbar. A window with creating account settings will be opened.

3.In the General section, specify the following parameters:

•In the Login field specify administrator account login for Dr.Web Security Control Center access. It is allowed to use lower case characters (a-z), upper case characters (A-Z), digits (0-9), symbols "_" and ".".

•In the Authentication type list, select one on the following variants:

▫Internal—authentication of such administrator in the Control Center is based on the credentials in the DB of Dr.Web Server.

▫External—authentication of such administrator in the Control Center is performed via LDAP, Active Directory, RADIUS or PAM external systems.

For more details see Authentication of Administrators.

•In the Password and Retype password fields set the password for accessing the Server and Dr.Web Security Control Center.

It is not allowed to use national characters in administrator password.

Password fields are active only for administrators with internal authentication.

Values of these fields specified in the Control Center for administrators with external authentication, are irrelevant.

•In the First name, Middle name and Last name fields you can specify administrator's personal data.

•In the Interface language drop-down list, select the language which will be used by the adding administrator (web browser language or English is specified by default).

•In the Date format drop-down list, select the date format which will be used by this administrator during editing settings that contain dates. The following formats are available:

▫European: DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS

▫American: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS

•In the Description field, you can set optional description of the account.

Values of fields, marked with the * sign, must be obligatory specified.

4.In the Groups subsection, you can specify parental administrative group. The list contains groups to which an administrator can be assigned. The flag is set next to the group to which created administrator will be assigned. Created administrators are placed in the parent group of current administrator by default. To change specified group, set the flag next to the required group.

Each administrator may be a member of one group only.

Administrator inherits permissions from the parental group (see Administrators Permissions).

5.After you set all necessary parameters, click Save to create a new administrative account.

Adding Administrative Groups

To create administrative groups, administrator must have Create administrators, administrative groups permission.

To add a new administrative group

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of Dr.Web Security Control Center and in the opened windows, select the Administrators item in the control menu.

2.Click the Create group icon in the toolbar. A window with creating group settings will be opened.

3.In the General section, specify the following parameters:

•In the Group field, specify the name of administrative group. It is allowed to use lower case characters (a-z), upper case characters (A-Z), digits (0-9), symbols "_" and ".".

•In the Description field, you can set optional description of the group.

4.In the Groups subsection, you can specify parental administrative group. The list contains groups which can be assigned as a parental group. The flag is set next to the group into which created administrative group will be included. Created groups are placed in the parent group of current administrator by default. To change specified group, set the flag next to the required group.

Only one parent group can be assigned.

Administrative group inherits permissions from the parental group (see Administrators Permissions).

5.After you set all necessary parameters, click Save to create a new administrative group.

Deleting Administrators and Administrative Groups

To delete administrative accounts and administrative groups, administrator must have Create administrators, administrative groups and Edit properties and configuration of administrative groups permissions correspondingly.

To delete administrator account

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of Dr.Web Security Control Center and then the Administrators item in the control menu.

2.In the administrators hierarchical list, select administrative account or administrative group you want to delete.

3.Click the Remove selected objects icon in the toolbar.