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Right to Use Admin
To use Admin, your account must be the “Administrator” account, or an account based on it.
Tip
The set of rights in an account based on the “Administrator” account cannot be modified;
only the password can.
To Grant Access to Admin
1. View the rights of a user’s account.
2. Click Rights and site access are based on:.
3. In the box next to Rights and site access are based on:, select “Administrator”.
4. Click Save and Close.
Tip
Why limit the use of Admin?
(a) The “Administrator” account has all user rights to all functions of View, and to every site
identified in your Multi db. With such an account, a malevolent user can quickly disable your
system or cover up unwarranted or illicit actions, such as deleting items in the alarm log.
(b) The Admin disc is used to install the user documents for Admin and the Multi-Media unit. This
information may exceed an operator’s need to know about your Multi system.
(c) Users of the “Administrator” account can remove an important safeguard to prevent
inadvertent use of the Clear storage feature. See
Clearing Storage, on p.129.
Right to Use Maintenance
Each of these rights are sensitive for security. Each of these rights gives access only to portions of
a Maintenance Session; see table 10–3. You can start a Maintenance Session in View with any one
of these three rights; which tabs appear differ.
• Modify configuration. Gives access to the tabs for making hardware configuration settings.
These rights can be sensitive in a Multi system. A user can turn recording off or set an NTSC
system to “PAL”, jeopardizing the unit’s ability to record video.
• Modify security. Gives access to the Security tab. User has the right to click Update security.
• Modify system settings. Gives access to the Statistics and System tabs. These rights can be
sensitive in a Multi system. A user can destroy all of the video and audio stored in a Multi-Media
unit by clicking Clear Storage on the Statistics tab; see
Clearing Storage, on p. 129. It also
controls the rebooting of Multi-Media units and upgrading files to a Multi-Media unit.
Your security officer and Multi SA must exercise vigilance if operators have accounts with
enough rights to jeopardize the operation of a Rapid Eye unit.