From the Users section of the administrative interface of the Marratech Manager you can easily add and modify users and groups.

The new Manager can communicate with an external user authentication system providing an LDAP interface, e.g. Active Directory. This is useful when you have a large number of users already setup in such a system. See the appendix for more details on this.

Please remember that if you create an e-meeting room with the "Open" privacy model, it will not require any user authentication, therefore bypassing user and group settings. However, Open e-meeting rooms can still have one or more groups and/or users assigned for the kick and lock moderating functions.

A default user, called admin is already created. admin's default password admin should be changed at your earliest convenience.

A default group, called portal-admin is included by default. Users belonging to this group will have access to the administration interface.

A user may belong to many groups. For example, Roger can be a portal-admin and be part of the management team.

	Setting up users Setting up a user is done from the administration pages, under the Users section. Users can be assigned a name, password, location, etc… as well as the group they belong in. Leaving the fields Name through Location blank will allow the users to set that information themselves from the Marratech client software. Setting them from the Manager will prevent the users from changing those settings from the client.
	Listing/finding users Use Find users to search the local user database or Show all users to produce a list of all the defined users.

Setting up user groups Room membership can be controlled by which group a user belongs to. SIP line access can also be controlled this way.

Setting up a group is done from the administration pages, under the Users section. Choose from the available user accounts, note the filtering function, making it easier to select many users.