Edit a User Account

Administration > Account Management > User Accounts

You can change the information of any user account you have added including account information, account type, or folder access rights. However, access rights granted to an account cannot exceed those of the grantor. That is, you cannot assign a user access rights that are greater than your own. In addition, if you reduce an account's rights, you also reduce all of its sub-accounts.

To edit a user account:

  1. Mouseover Administration on the main menu. A drop down menu appears.

  2. Mouseover Account Management from the drop down menu. A sub-menu appears.

  3. Click User Accounts from the sub-menu. The User Accounts screen appears.

  4. In the working area, click the account to edit from the User ID column. The User Account Step 1: User Information screen appears.

  5. Select Enable this account to enable Control Manager authenticated users.

  6. Select the account information to edit:

  7. Trend Micro Control Manager authenticated user

    Users cannot edit their User name.

    1. Edit the following information for the account:

      • Full name

      • Password - You must confirm the password in the field provided. You can change the password on the My Account screen

    The following additional information is optional. You can also change these settings on the My Account screen.

      • Email address

      • Mobile phone number

      • Pager number (precede the pager number with a "9" and a comma "," [each comma causes a 2 second pause])

      • MSN Messenger address

     

  8. Active Directory authenticated user

    1. Edit the following information:

      • User name

      • Domain: The domain to which the user belongs

    • User names and domain names can be up to 32 characters in length.

  1. Click the Next button. The Add User Account Step 2: Access Control screen appears.

  2. Select the account type from the Select account type list.

    The default options are Operator, Power User, and Administrator, however users can create their own account types.

  1. Select the products or directories the user has access to from the Select accessible products/folders: work area.

  2. Carefully organize the Product Directory, because you can assign users access to a single point.

    You can assign access to a folder, this allows users access to all its sub-folders and managed products.

    You can restrict a user to a single managed product.

  1. Select the check boxes of the rights to assign the privileges to the user. These rights determine what actions the user can perform on managed products.

  2. When editing accounts:

    Root users can edit all the accounts that exist on the system. Administrator accounts, however, can only edit those that they created themselves.

    Modification of an account's privileges terminates all sessions using that account.


    You cannot change an existing account's User name.

  1. Click Finish.

See also:

Add a user account

Importing Active Directory users

Disable a user account

Delete a user account

Access the User Groups screen

Add a user group

Edit a user group

Delete a user group