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- Envoy Security
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-
- Security in Envoy is similar to that of Unix, where you have users and
- groups. Just like in Unix, each user has a name, password, numeric
- user id, and a primary group id. Each user also has specific flags
- that specify whether or not a user may create groups, change his name,
- change his password, etc. A group in Envoy is also similar to the
- concept in Unix, where each group has a numeric group id and contains
- an arbitrary number of users.
-
- Unlike Unix, every machine using Envoy does not need to have it's own
- private list of users and groups. Only machines that are exporting
- services need to have a user and group database.
-
- The core of Envoy security is the Accounts Manager, which runs on each
- machine that is exporting services, such as a printer or file system.
- The Accounts Manager is a process that keeps track of all user and
- group information on a particular machine. The Accounts Manager is
- accessed from Envoy services by using the accounts.library, which is
- described below.
-
-
- User and Group Administration
- -----------------------------
-
- User and Group administration is accomplished by using the two
- configuration tools, named Users and Groups.
-
- The Users tool allows you to add, remove, or change users on a
- particular machine. When it is started, it will ask you to log in.
- If this is the first time you've run the Users tool, you should log in
- with a user name of "Admin" with a password of "Admin". At this point
- you should probably change the password for the Admin account. You
- may also change then name of the Admin account if you wish.
-
- If you want to add a user to your machine, click on the Create gadget
- below the ListView gadget. A new account named "NewUser" will be
- created. You can then change then change "NewUser" to anything that
- you like, as well as the password. You can also change what the user
- can and can't do by using the checkbox gadgets on the right.
-
- To add or remove groups, you must run the Groups tool. Once you have
- logged in, you will see two listview gadgets. The one on the left
- lists the groups that have been created on your machine. The list on
- the right is for displaying what users are members of the currently
- selected group.
-
- To add a group, click on the Create button below the left listview. A
- new group named "NewGroup" will be created. You may change the name
- of this group by clicking in the string gadget below the lefthand
- listview.
-
- To add a user to the currently selected group, click on the Add...
- button below the righthand listview. A requester will open that will
- allow you to click on a user to add.
-
- You may remove a group member by clicking on a user's name in the
- righthand listview and clicking on the Remove button.
-
- Each group also may have a Group Administrator that is allowed to add
- or remove users to a particular group. The default for the Group
- Administrator is the Admin account. You may change this by clicking
- on the Select... gadget above the righthand listview. A requester
- will open that will allow you to select the new Group Administrator.
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