Administering Users Accounts
In order for you to use any service provided by the server
computer it is required that you register yourself inside the
server computer creating a user profile. The user profile
provides the user information required by services inside the
server computer (e.g., username, password, e-mail address,
telephone number, etc.). To register new user profiles, you
need to use the web application provided by the server
computer. For example, assuming the domain name of the server
computer is example.com, the web
application would be accessable through the following URL:
.
To reach the web interface, the first thing you need to do is
establishing a dial-up connection to the server computer as
described in . Once the
dial-up connection has been established, you need to open a
web browser (e.g., Firefox) and put the URL mentioned above in
the address space, and press Enter to go. This will present
you a web page with the instructions you need to follow in
order to register your user profile. Other actions like
updating or deleting your own user profile should be also
possible from this web interface.
The web interface used to manage user profiles inside the
server computer must be presented over an encrypted session in
order to protect all the information passing through.
Inside the server computer, all related subsystems in need of
user information (e.g., Postix, Cyrus-Imapd and Saslauthd)
retrive user information from one single (LDAP) source. The
web application provided by the server computer manages all
these subsystems' configuration files in order to provide a
pleasant experience for end users. The web interface must be
as simple as possible in order to achieve all administration
tasks in the range of time permitted by the server computer
before it closes the connection established from the client
computer.
More information about the web interface you need to use to
manage your user profile inside the server computer can be
found in ....