Managing User Accounts

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED
To fully manage user accounts, you must be a Nimbul administrator. For more information, see Permissions and Roles.

Note: If you are not a system administrator, you can still manage your own profile, password and other account information by clicking [Your User Name]’s Account in the main Nimbul menu.

Viewing Accounts

To view a list of user accounts, complete these steps:

  1. In the main Nimbul menu, click Admin Controls.
  2. Click Administer Users. A list of users appears, showing logins (user names), display names and e-mail addresses, as well as the following information:
Column Description
Admin? Indicates whether the user is a Nimbul (system) administrator. Administrators also appear in bold green type.
Active? Indicates whether the user has responded to the account activation e-mail message. Nimbul administrators can also activate an inactive account by clicking the link in this column.
Enabled? Indicates whether the user’s account is currently enabled (the account is automatically enabled when first activated). To disable the account, the link in this column.
Auth Type of authentication: LDAP or database (DB). See also the Overview.
Roles Click the link in this column to edit the user’s roles, as described below.
Access Rules Click the link in this column to edit access rules for this user, as described below.

Note: To see a user’s recent activity, as well as the date the user registered for an account, click the user’s name in the Login column.

Editing Roles

To edit a user’s roles, complete these steps:

  1. Click the link in the Roles column.
  2. On the Roles page, select or clear the checkbox that indicates whether this user is a Nimbul (system) administrator. For more information, see Permissions and Roles.
  3. Click Update to save your changes.

Editing Access Rules

To edit access rules for a user, complete these steps:

  1. Click the link in the Access Rules column.
  2. On the Provider Accounts for [user-name] page, select or clear the checkboxes to grant or deny access to clusters and provider accounts.

  1. Click Update to save your changes.

Related Topics

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