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Local Users and Groups

About§

Local users and groups is a Windows mechanism to manage local user accounts and their membership in groups. They are configured in the utility named Computer Management.

Group membership is a conventional way to manage user permissions in the installed software applications.

SmartPTT supports local users and groups as reliable tool to incorporate versatile security policies. With this, SmartPTT provides the following benefits:

  • Any industry-demanded security policies incorporation.
  • Support of one of the industry-standard tools for those policies (Windows authentication services).
  • SmartPTT compliance with the industry-standard requirements.

Medium and large organizations may consider Active Directory Authorization incorporation.

Limitations§

Available in the dedicated article

Changelog§

9.14.100§

  • Adding the ability to set up centralized (server-only) authentication.

9.14§

  • Introducing the feature.

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