Creating users
You can create and edit user accounts. Managing the access that users have to an iBase database allows you to secure your data.
You can:
- Create new users.
- Add contact details for users (which are used by the Created By and Updated By fields in the properties of a record, and if you assign owners to records).
- Change a user's password (only for users with iBase user names and passwords).
- Add and remove group memberships to affect a user's permissions.
- Remove a user's access, and prevent them from logging on to a security file.
- Make users inactive or delete them.
How users acquire permissions
Users gain the database management permissions accumulated from all database management groups of which they are a member. There is a similar combination of permissions or restrictions for the user’s membership of each other type of group.
If there are Data Access Control groups, then a new user is automatically made a member of all these groups. This gives them the lowest possible level of data access, which is safe from a security perspective but may prevent the user doing useful work. You can change this default group membership, whenever you wish, to give the user meaningful access to data.
To see the current database management permissions, click Show User Permissions. For further details, see Checking user permissions.