Managing Local User Accounts

You add, edit, or remove users, specify passwords, and assign user roles to local-user accounts on the User & Groups page in the ztC Edge Console. You can also select a user and view the time when the user's password was last updated, and an administrator can force a selected user to change the user's password on the next login. You can assign a user who is not an administrator the task (or privilege) Join a computer to the domain. (To grant or deny access for established user accounts in an Active Directory domain, see Managing Domain User Accounts.)

Local user accounts reside on the ztC Edge system itself, as opposed to a central domain server. You can find local accounts on the Users & Groups page by looking for entries labeled Local User in the Type column.

User roles are:

• Administrator: full system administrator privileges
• Platform Manager: system administrator privileges except for adding, removing, and modifying users
• VM Manager: ability to manage VMs (see Managing Virtual Machines for detailed information)
• Read-only: ability to view but not to change system configuration or to install system software

For the procedures below, begin by opening the Users & Groups page: click Preferences in the left-hand navigation panel to open the Preferences page, and then, under Administrative Tools, select Users & Groups.