User Manual

User and Group Accounts
Users are the people to whom you grant access to your storage system. If your company
uses Windows Active Directory, you can use that to manage ReadyNAS users. Otherwise,
when you want to allow someone to access your ReadyNAS system, you create a user
account for that person. The ReadyNAS storage system administrator sets up user
accounts and decides which folders and LUNs each user is permitted to access.
If your ReadyNAS storage system is used at home, you might create a user account for
each member of the family, but allow only the parents to access financial data stored
on your system. You might decide that all user accounts can access photos and music
stored on the system. You can set the appropriate permissions for each user.
The ReadyNAS system administrator can set up groups to make it easier to manage
large numbers of users. For example, if your ReadyNAS storage system is being used
in a business, you might decide that every employee requires a user account. However,
you might decide that only users in the accounting department can access information
in the accounting share, but that all users can access data stored in the company benefits
share. You can create a group for each department and place all users in the appropriate
group or groups.
The ReadyNAS system administrator account allows special priviledges. The ReadyNAS
system administrator can grant most, but not all, of these special priviledges to any user
by assigning that user to the user group admin. Examples of these special priviledges
available to secondary admin accounts include access to all Home Folders, and full
access to control of networking protocols. Secondary admin accounts cannot do the
following:
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Disable themselves
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Perform password recovery
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Perform password reset
Home Folders
Home folders allow each user a private folder matching his or her account name. Home
folders are automatically created when a user account is created. By default, home
folders are available over SMB, AFP, and NFS protocols and are available optionally
over FTP and DLNA protocols. All can be disabled.
You can control whether or not snapshots are enabled for home folders. You enable or
disable snapshot protection for home folders through a switch for the default user
(Accounts > Default User). If snapshot protection is enabled here, you can enable or
disable it for individual home folders when viewing it in the Shares tab.
Software Manual137Users and Groups
ReadyNAS OS 6.10