TRANSFER Administration Guide Volume 1 Reference Manual

2 Getting Started with ADMIN

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Overview This section provides basic information for getting started with ADMIN. The section

defines the types of TRANSFER correspondents who use ADMIN, explains function

key usage and screen navigation, describes where advice messages appear and how to

get Help, and gives instructions for logging onto the ADMIN MAIN MENU. Also

included are naming rules for TRANSFER objects such as correspondents, folders, and

distribution lists.

Using ADMIN Each user or interest group has a depot, a portion of the TRANSFER database

specifically associated with that user or group. The user or group is the owner of the

depot. Created when a new correspondent or group is registered, a depot includes the

profiles, folders, and distribution lists that belong to the correspondent or group. A

correspondent name and its depot name are the same. Similarly, an interest group

name is the same as its depot name.

Types of TRANSFER

Access

ADMIN provides three types of access to TRANSFER, depending on the

administrative functions granted to the user. These access types are:

Administrative with write privileges

Users with system administrative write privileges can create and delete any

correspondent, interest group, folder, or distribution list on the node. In addition,

this type of user can read the attributes of any correspondent, group, folder, or

distribution list and has the authority to modify many of these attributes. Each

node must have at least one user with system administrative write privileges to

administrator and the system manager have such privileges.

This manual uses the term system administrator to describe a user with system

administrative write privileges.

Administrative with read-only privileges

Users with system administrative read-only privileges can examine, but not

change, the contents of a depot belonging to any correspondent or interest group.

This manual uses the term read-only administrator to describe a user with system

administrative read privileges.

Correspondent

Regular users, with no system administrative privileges, can perform only certain

functions that pertain to their own depots. Every user of a TRANSFER client is

registered as a TRANSFER correspondent.

This manual uses the terms correspondent and depot owner to describe a user

with no system administrative privileges.

Versions of a Screen Often, there are two versions of a screen: one for system administrators with write

privileges, and one for administrators and correspondents with read-only privileges.

With some of these screens, both versions contain the same fields.