Macintosh Manager 1.3: How to Modify or Remove a User Account

This document discusses modifying or removing a user account.

To modify existing user accounts:

1. Open Macintosh Manager and click the Users tab.
2. Click the name of the user whose account you want to modify. To modify several users that have the same attributes, open the Edit menu and choose Select Users By.

After you've selected the user or users you want to modify, you can do any of the following tasks:

Removing a user account

To remove the selected user or users:

• Click Delete.

If you can't delete a user:
Make sure you are deleting users from the list in the Users panel. You cannot delete users in the All Users list in the Workgroups panel.

Disabling a user account

To disable the selected user account (or accounts), do one of the following:

• To disable an account immediately, deselect the "User can log in" checkbox and click Save.
• To disable an account at a future date, select the checkbox next to "Disable log-in as of," then type the date you want the account to be disabled and click Save.

Modifying user settings

To modify information about the selected user account (or accounts):

• Make the desired changes. Some items (such as the user type) can only be changed by a global administrator. These options are unavailable if you are a workgroup administrator. See Setting options in the Users panel for more information.

Changes take effect the next time the user logs in.

Giving a user system access

Users who have system access see System Access listed in the Workgroup list when they log in. When a user logs in to the System Access workgroup, he or she can modify the System Folder and access every item on the startup volume.

To give the selected user or users system access:

1. Click the Advanced tab.
2. Select the checkbox next to "User has system access" and click Save.

(This information is gleaned from the Info Center online help system, which is located on your computer's hard disk.)