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A user may also have roles through group memberships. When that is the case, you
cannot remove the individual user from the role. Group members may also hold roles as
individuals. To find out which roles users, groups, or individual group members have,
use the View Effective Roles function.
Create basic users
When you add a basic user to your system, you create a dedicated surveillance system user account with basic
user name and password authentication for the individual user. This is in contrast to the Windows user, added
through Active Directory.
When working with basic users, it is important to understand the difference between basic user and Windows
user.
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Basic users are authenticated by a user name/password combination and are specific to a system.
Even if basic users have the same name and password, a basic user created at one federated site does
not have access to another federated site
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Windows users are authenticated based on their Windows login and are specific to a machine
Configure login settings for basic users
You can define the login settings for basic users. This is done in a JSON file, located here: \\Program
Files\Milestone\Management Server\IIS\IDP\appsettings.json.
In that file, you can set the following parameters:
LoginSettings
"ExpireTimeInMinutes": 5
Define the length of time (in minutes) a login session will expire if the
user takes no action.
LockoutSettings
"LockoutTimeSpanInMinutes": 5 Define the length of time (in minutes) a user will be locked out.
"MaxFailedAccessAttempts": 5
Define the number of attempts a user will have to log in before being
locked out.
PasswordSettings
"RequireDigit": true
Define whether base digits (0 through 9) are required in the
Administrator manual | XProtect® VMS 2023 R1
274 | Configuration
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