Accounts
This section allows you to maintain multiple login accounts for access to Webinator administration. All users will be listed on this page. You may add users, delete users, and change individual user passwords. The default user, called webinator , may not be deleted.
It also allows you to create multiple administrative users. There is no distinction amongst them once created. All users have full administrative permissions and may create and delete any user or change any user's password. This is a basic security mechanism meant to keep unauthorized persons from using the web based administrative interface. The purpose for multiple users is so that you can create distinct passwords that you might want to revoke in the future without having to change a single global password that all administrators know.
User names and passwords are stored in the SYSUSERS table of the
default database. This is only a holding place for them. No Texis
permissions are granted or revoked for these users. A side effect of
the users being stored in SYSUSERS is that any users that you
might create in the default database by other means than the Webinator
interface will also automatically become Webinator administrators.
The passwords are forward encrypted. This means that a forgotten password may not be discovered. The only way to deal with a forgotten password is to change the password. In the event that all passwords are forgotten you can delete the webinator user from SYSUSERS using texis -s from a command prompt and entering an appropriate SQL delete statement. The administrative script will then create the webinator user anew and ask you for a new password.
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