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* Updated the 'Managing the Current User with RDLogin' chapter of the Operations Guide. Signed-off-by: Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
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<title>Managing the Current User with RDLogin</title>
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<sect1 xml:id="sect.rdlogin.managing_the_current_user_with_rdlogin">
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<title>RDLogin</title>
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<para>
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Rivendell uses a sophisticated system of user privileges to keep track
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of which users have permission to perform what operations.
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These privileges are tracked by the system on the basis of
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<emphasis>user accounts</emphasis>.
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Creating user accounts and administering their permissions
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are done in the RDAdmin module and are covered in
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<xref linkend="sect.rdadmin.managing_users" />.
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</para>
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<para>
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It's important to note that these user accounts are
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<emphasis>not</emphasis> the same
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thing as the “Login Name” that is used to log into the computer system
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itself. Rather, they exist and have meaning only within the Rivendell
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system. For the rest of this discussion, when we talk about “users”,
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it is these “Rivendell users” that we are referring to.
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</para>
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<para>
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Each Rivendell host has a default user. As the name implies, this is
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the user that is automatically logged in after the system is booted.
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By default, the name of this user is “user”, but the system
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administrator may have changed this to some other name.
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</para>
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<para>
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For many sites, a single default user is all that is ever required.
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For some sites however, particularly larger ones, it is desirable
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to have multiple user accounts, each tailored to a particular person
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or “role”, with privileges assigned appropriately. Such sites
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require a means to log different users in and out of the system
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without interfering with any playout operations that may be ongoing
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at the time. RDLogin is the module for doing this.
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</para>
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<para>
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RDLogin will display a small window after being started, showing the
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currently logged-in user. To change to a
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different user, select the desired user name from the Username:
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control, enter the correct password, and then touch the Set User
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button. To “log out” of the system (in reality, just return to the
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default user), simply touch the Default User button (no password is
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required to set the default user). To exit RDLogin and do nothing,
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simply touch the Cancel button.
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</para>
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<para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata align="center" fileref="rdlogin.rdlogin_screenshot.png" scale="70"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</para>
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<note>
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The system administrator may have configured the system so as not to
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display the list of available users. If this is the case, you will
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need to enter the username of the user to log in rather than selecting
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it from a dropdown list.
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</note>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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