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Managing MDaemon Accounts

Managing and editing your MDaemon User Accounts.

This section contains information on MDaemon's Account Database Options, the Account Manager, and New Account Defaults. The Account Database Options dialog (Ctrl+M or Accounts Account database…) is used to designate the method that you want MDaemon to use to maintain your user accounts: ODBC, LDAP, or the local USERLIST.DAT system. The Account Manager (Alt+M or Accounts Account manager…) is used to maintain, create, and delete your user accounts. The New Account Defaults dialog (Alt+F10 or Accounts New account defaults…) is used to designate the default settings that will be used for newly created accounts.

Store account data in USERLIST.DAT disk file

Choose this option if you want MDaemon to use its internal USERLIST.DAT file as the account database. This is MDaemon's default setting and causes all of the MDaemon user account information to be stored locally. Most information is stored in a single file, which is memory resident to increase efficiency and speed.

Store account data in LDAP accessible store

Choose this option if you want MDaemon to use your LDAP server as the MDaemon user database rather than ODBC or its local USERLIST.DAT system. You might want to use this method of maintaining your user account data if you have multiple MDaemon servers at different locations but want them to share a single user database. Each MDaemon server would be configured to connect to the same LDAP server in order to share user information rather than storing it locally. LDAP servers typically respond quickly and efficiently to queries but are slower to update or insert new data.

Configure

When the LDAP account data option is selected, click this button to open the LDAP Options dialog for configuring your LDAP server settings.

Store account data in an ODBC accessible store

Choose this option if you want to use an ODBC compliant database as your MDaemon account database.

Configure

When the ODBC account data option is selected, click this button to open the ODBC Selector wizard for selecting and configuring your ODBC compliant database. See ODBC Selector Wizard below for more information.

ODBC Selector Wizard

Use this wizard to select or configure an ODBC compliant system data source to use as your MDaemon accounts database. To open this wizard, click Ctrl+M or Accounts Account database… within MDaemon. Then, choose the option labeled, "Store account data in an ODBC accessible store." Finally, click the "Configure" button beside that option.

First, select data source

This area lists all of your ODBC system data sources. Choose the one that you wish to use as MDaemon's user account database.

Some data sources require a logon and password

If your selected data source requires a logon and password to access it then enter that information here.

New DSN

If there is not a compatible system data source listed, or if you need to create a new one, click New DSN.

Migrating Your Account Database to an ODBC Accessible Store

To use an ODBC accessible database as your MDaemon account database:

On the Account Database Options dialog (Accounts Account database…), click Store account data in an ODBC accessible store, and then click Configure to open the ODBC Selector Wizard.
Select the data source that you wish to use for your account database. If there is not a compatible data source listed, create a new one by following the instructions listed under Creating a New System Data Source.
Click Next.
If the data source already contains the tables that are required by MDaemon, go to Step 7. Otherwise, click Run a script to create the necessary tables….
Type the file path (or Browse) to the desired script file that you wish to use to create the tables for your database application. The \MDaemon\app\ folder contains scripts for several of the most popular database applications.
Click Run script and create database tables now, Click OK, and click Close.
Click Finish, and click OK to close the Account Database Options dialog.
A database migration tool will migrate all of your user accounts to the ODBC data source and then close MDaemon. Click OK, and then restart MDaemon and begin using the new ODBC account database.

Creating a New System Data Source

To create a new ODBC system data source:

On the Account Database Options dialog, click Store account data in an ODBC accessible store, and then click Configure to open the ODBC Selector Wizard.
Click New DSN to open the Select Data Source dialog. Switch to the Machine Data Source tab.
Click New… to open the Create New Data Source dialog.
Select System Data Source, and click Next.
Select the database driver for which you wish to set up the data source, and click Next.
Click Finish to display the driver-specific setup dialog. The appearance of this dialog will vary based on which driver you have selected (Microsoft Access Setup dialog shown below).
Designate a Data Source Name for your new data source and provide any other information required by the driver-specific dialog (such as creating or specifying a database, choosing a directory or server, and so on).
Click OK to close the driver-specific dialog.
Click OK to close the Select Data Source dialog.