Users

Users are specific, named IDs that allow you to identify yourself to the server. When a client logs in, the connect request should be accompanied by a username and the password associated with the username.

Note: In special cases, you may wish to allow anonymous access to the server. In this case, a connect request does not have to supply a username or password. To configure the server to allow anonymous logins, you must create a user named anonymous and specify no password. Anonymous logins are not permitted unless the anonymous user exists.

Clients logging in anonymously are only able to perform the actions that the anonymous user has permission to perform.

There is one predefined user, admin, that performs administrative tasks, such as creating other users.

You can create and remove users and change passwords by specifying the users in the users.conf configuration file, using the tibemsadmin tool, or by using the administration APIs. For more information about specifying users in the configuration file, see users.conf. For more information about specifying users using the tibemsadmin tool, see EMS Administration Tool. For more information on the administration APIs, see the online documentation.