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System Administration Guide (Online Only)

[-] Chapter 10 Managing Adaptive Server Logins and Database Users

Chapter 10

Managing Adaptive Server Logins and Database Users

This chapter describes methods for managing Adaptive Server login accounts and database users.

Adding new users: An overview
Choosing and creating a password
Adding logins to Adaptive Server
Creating groups
[-] Adding users to databases
[+] Adding a "guest" user to a database
Creating visitor accounts
Adding remote users
[-] Number of user and login IDs
Limits and Ranges of ID Numbers
Login connection limitations
Viewing Server Limits for Logins, Users, and Groups
[-] Creating and assigning roles to users
[+] Planning user-defined roles
Configuring user-defined roles
Creating a user-defined role
Adding and removing passwords from a role
Defining and changing mutual exclusivity of roles
Defining and changing a role hierarchy
Setting up default activation at login
Activating and deactivating roles
[-] Dropping users, groups and user-defined roles
Dropping users
Dropping groups
Dropping user-defined roles
[-] Locking or dropping Adaptive Server login accounts
Locking and unlocking login accounts
Dropping login accounts
Locking logins that own thresholds
[-] Changing user information
[+] Changing passwords
Changing user defaults
Changing a user's group membership
Changing the user process information
[-] Using aliases in databases
Adding aliases
Dropping aliases
Getting information about aliases
[-] Getting information about users
Getting reports on users and processes
Getting information about login accounts
Getting information about database users
Finding user names and IDs
[+] Displaying information about roles
[-] Monitoring license use
How licenses are counted
Configuring License Manager to monitor user licenses
Monitoring license use with the housekeeper task
Logging the number of user licenses
[-] Getting information about usage: Chargeback accounting
[+] Reporting current usage statistics
Specifying the interval for adding accounting statistics


User-defined login
security [Table of Contents] Adding new users: An overview