Importing Users

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FaxPress user accounts can be created manually, one at a time, or by importing existing network and mail system users. Whatever way new FaxPress user accounts are created, their User Properties will need to be configured according to Creating User Accounts.

Creating new user accounts by importing network, mail system, or Active Directory users is described in this chapter. For information on generating FaxPress accounts individually, see Creating User Accounts.

Single Sign On

Single Sign On is a session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter one name and password in order to access multiple applications. The single sign on, which is requested at the initiation of the session, authenticates the user to access all the applications they have been given the rights to on the server, and eliminates future authentication prompts when the user switches applications during that particular session.

When FaxPress is joined to the network domain, Single Sign is automatically enabled. This means that, when FaxPress is joined to the network domain, and a user’s FaxPress name matches the user’s network domain name, the FaxPress users’ login process is by default integrated with their network login. Once logged into the network domain, the user whose FaxPress and network domain name are the same is automatically logged in to their FaxPress account, and will not be prompted for the FaxPress mailbox name and password.

When FaxPress is joined to the network domain, but the user’s FaxPress name does not match the user’s network domain name, the user’s password is maintained separately from the network password, and Single Sign On is not implemented.

In either case, whether the FaxPress name matches the network domain or whether it doesn’t, the default password on all new FaxPress accounts is blank. See the next section, Setting User Passwords – Important, for more information on passwords.

To prevent Single Sign On, the FaxPress should not be joined to the network domain. To use Single Sign On in a Novell environment, you must first create FaxPress specific groups in the network operating system (NDS objects or bindery groups depending on the version/environment of Netware.) See Novell Single Sign On.

When a Novell network user with Single Sign on enabled opens FaxPress, the network login is used and membership in network groups determines user privileges.

Setting User Passwords – Important

Whether created manually as described in this chapter, or automatically by importing network, mail system, or Active Directory users, all FaxPress user accounts are by default automatically assigned a blank password. Supervisors cannot change this default blank password while logged in as supervisor. Account passwords can only be set from within the user account.

Recommend to your users that they reset their passwords when their accounts are created, or set the passwords for them. (See Setting and Erasing Passwords for step by step instructions on setting user passwords.)

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