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Working with managed users, Defining a guest user, Deleting a user account – Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) User Manual

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Users and Groups

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Working With Managed Users

See Chapter 6, “Client Management: Mac OS X,” and Chapter 10, “Client Management:
Mac OS 9 and OS 8,” for information about how you can make a user a managed user, which
lets you set up preferences for the user.

Defining a Guest User

You can set up some services to support “anonymous” users, who can’t be authenticated
because they do not have a valid user name or password. The following services can be set
up this way:

m Windows services (see “Windows Services” on page 248 for information about configuring

guest access)

m Apple file service (see “Apple File Service” on page 236 for information about configuring

guest access)

m FTP service (see “File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service” on page 256 for information about

configuring guest access)

m Web service (see Chapter 8, “Web Service,” for information about configuring guest

access)

Users who connect to a server anonymously are restricted to files, folders, and Web sites with
privileges set to Everyone.

Another kind of guest user is a managed user that you can define to allow easy setup of
public computers or kiosk computers. See Chapter 6, “Client Management: Mac OS X,” and
Chapter 10, “Client Management: Mac OS 9 and OS 8,” for more about these kinds of users.

Deleting a User Account

You can use Workgroup Manager to delete a user account stored in a NetInfo or LDAPv3
directory domain.

To delete a user account using Workgroup Manager:

1

In Workgroup Manager, open the user account you want to delete if it is not already open.

To open the account, click the Accounts button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the account resides. Click the lock to be authenticated. Select the
user in the user list.

2

Choose Delete Selected User from the Server menu.

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