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Controlling user access to the server

You can control who connects to the server by using DBUser objects. You can choose to allow anyone to connect to the server, or you can limit access to users who already have a DBUser object. To limit user access you would use an administrative movie to create new users' DBUser objects before allowing them to connect on their own. You can also choose to let all users connect, but restrict certain privileges to only those users with DBUser objects. You do this by giving users with DBUser objects a higher value for their #userlevel attribute and letting other users default to a lower value. See Configuring the server for more information.