Changes

From the list of user accounts, you can easily modify or remove a user account (by clicking on "modify" or "remove" next to the user name) or set the user's password. User accounts are locked out and cannot be used until you set the initial password for each account . As a reminder of this, user accounts appear in red until the password is changed. (In the example shown here, the administrator has not yet changed the password for user "Sally Salmon").

From the list of user accounts, you can easily modify or remove a user account (by clicking on "modify" or "remove" next to the user name) or set the user's password. User accounts are locked out and cannot be used until you set the initial password for each account . As a reminder of this, user accounts appear in red until the password is changed. (In the example shown here, the administrator has not yet changed the password for user "Sally Salmon").

{{DrawBoxNote|content=If you want someone to have an email address at your company, but want the messages forwarded to another external email address, you can create the user account but set the email delivery option in the user account to 'Forward to address below' and enter the external address. If you leave the user account locked out, the user will not be able to access services on your server, but the email will be delivered to the external email address.}}

{{Note box|If you want someone to have an email address at your company, but want the messages forwarded to another external email address, you can create the user account but set the email delivery option in the user account to 'Forward to address below' and enter the external address. If you leave the user account locked out, the user will not be able to access services on your server, but the email will be delivered to the external email address.}}

=====Disabling User Accounts=====

=====Disabling User Accounts=====

 

 

{{DrawBoxNote|content=There is no way for the administrator to recover a forgotten password for a user. All they can do is set a new password for the user.}}

{{Note box|There is no way for the administrator to recover a forgotten password for a user. All they can do is set a new password for the user.}}

 

 

{{DrawBoxNote|content='''Password strength checking is too strong. How do I change it?'''<br />

{{Note box|'''Password strength checking is too strong. How do I change it?'''<br />

First a warning - Far too many systems out there have weak passwords and they will be broken into. Educating your users on the necessity of strong passwords is the best option. If that fails, here is how you change the password strength checking from 'strong' to 'normal', which was the setting in previous versions of SME. Be careful to use the exact capitalization.<br />

First a warning - Far too many systems out there have weak passwords and they will be broken into. Educating your users on the necessity of strong passwords is the best option. If that fails, here is how you change the password strength checking from 'strong' to 'normal', which was the setting in previous versions of SME. Be careful to use the exact capitalization.<br />

Creating a new group is a simple three-step process. You enter the group name (as with account names, these should begin with a lower-case letter and consist only of lower-case letters and numbers), followed by a brief description. Finally, check the boxes next to the names of the users who should be associated with that group.

Creating a new group is a simple three-step process. You enter the group name (as with account names, these should begin with a lower-case letter and consist only of lower-case letters and numbers), followed by a brief description. Finally, check the boxes next to the names of the users who should be associated with that group.

{{DrawBoxWarning|content=When you create a group, you are required to assign at least one user to that group. If you fail to do so, the group will not be created and you will receive an error message.}}

{{Warning box|When you create a group, you are required to assign at least one user to that group. If you fail to do so, the group will not be created and you will receive an error message.}}

After you add (or remove) a user account from a group, the user must log out and log back in for those changes to take effect. Until the user does so, he or she will still have their old group membership information. For instance, suppose you create a new group "sales" and assign user "ffrog" (Fred Frog) to that group. You then create a new i-bay called "salesinfo" that only the "sales" group can access. Fred Frog is still logged into a Windows PC and now tries to connect to the new i-bay through Windows Explorer. He will receive a permission-denied error. He must log out of Windows (he does not need to shut down or reboot, just log out) and login again. Now he should be able to go through Windows Explorer and access the "salesinfo" i-bay without any problem.

After you add (or remove) a user account from a group, the user must log out and log back in for those changes to take effect. Until the user does so, he or she will still have their old group membership information. For instance, suppose you create a new group "sales" and assign user "ffrog" (Fred Frog) to that group. You then create a new i-bay called "salesinfo" that only the "sales" group can access. Fred Frog is still logged into a Windows PC and now tries to connect to the new i-bay through Windows Explorer. He will receive a permission-denied error. He must log out of Windows (he does not need to shut down or reboot, just log out) and login again. Now he should be able to go through Windows Explorer and access the "salesinfo" i-bay without any problem.

[[Image:Quotas.png]]

[[Image:Quotas.png]]

{{DrawBoxWarning|content=Note that the quotas apply to all files that a user stores on the server. This includes not just their home directory, but also all files that they may put into any of the i-bays.}}

{{Warning box|Note that the quotas apply to all files that a user stores on the server. This includes not just their home directory, but also all files that they may put into any of the i-bays.}}

There are two quotas that can be applied to each user account:

There are two quotas that can be applied to each user account:

Note that if the user account exceeds the "Limit with grace period" for seven consecutive days, the account will be treated as if it exceeded the absolute limit and will no longer be able to save files or receive email.

Note that if the user account exceeds the "Limit with grace period" for seven consecutive days, the account will be treated as if it exceeded the absolute limit and will no longer be able to save files or receive email.

{{DrawBoxWarning|content=Email for the user account is not lost! It is held in the delivery queue and will be delivered to the user when their disk usage drops back below their absolute limit (or the "limit with grace period" if they were locked out due to seven days above that limit).}}

{{Warning box|Email for the user account is not lost! It is held in the delivery queue and will be delivered to the user when their disk usage drops back below their absolute limit (or the "limit with grace period" if they were locked out due to seven days above that limit).}}

By selecting " Modify " you are able to set a quota (in Megabytes) for a particular user account. Note that you do not have to set both limits for a user account and can choose to set only one of the limits.

By selecting " Modify " you are able to set a quota (in Megabytes) for a particular user account. Note that you do not have to set both limits for a user account and can choose to set only one of the limits.

If you wish to modify or remove any of these pseudonyms, or create new ones, you can use the web panel found under the "Collaboration" section of the server-manager, as shown below.

If you wish to modify or remove any of these pseudonyms, or create new ones, you can use the web panel found under the "Collaboration" section of the server-manager, as shown below.

{{DrawBoxNote|content=The special pseudonyms of "everyone", "postmaster" and "mailer-daemon" will only be visible after you have either added a user account to the system or have added a custom pseudonym. Until that time, these three pseudonyms are there, but will not be visible on the Pseudonyms web panel.}}

{{Note box|The special pseudonyms of "everyone", "postmaster" and "mailer-daemon" will only be visible after you have either added a user account to the system or have added a custom pseudonym. Until that time, these three pseudonyms are there, but will not be visible on the Pseudonyms web panel.}}

[[Image:Pseudonyms.png]]

[[Image:Pseudonyms.png]]