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21 Authentication and Accounting Features
Overview of Authentication and Accounting Feature
This section overviews the Authentication feature and the Accounting feature.
The following shows the reference section for each feature.
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Overview of Authentication Feature
Types of Users
The users include the System Administrator, Login User, Unregistered User, and Local User.
For more information about the feature, refer to "User Types Managed by Authentication Feature"
(P.480).
User Role/Authorization Group
Allows you to assign a user role and an authorization group to each user.
When you assign [System Administrator] in [User Role] to a user, for example, the user has
almost the same privileges as the System Administrator.
For more information about the feature, refer to "User Roles and Authorization Groups" (P.480).
Types of Authentication
The machine supports two authentication types: [Login to Local Accounts] that
authenticates users based on the user information registered on the machine, and [Login to
Remote Accounts] that authenticates users based on the user information registered on a
remote server.
For more information about the feature, refer to "Types of Authentication" (P.481).
Note • The available remote servers are LDAP, Kerberos, and SMB servers.
Access Control
Allows you to prohibit the operation of the control panel buttons.
For more information, refer to "Device Access" (P.409).
Allows you to configure whether to restrict the availability per service such as Copy, Fax, and
Scan.
For more information about the feature, refer to "Service Access" (P.409).
Allows you to restrict users from making color copies, or from printing or retrieving files
stored in folders per user.
For more information about the feature, refer to "Feature Access" (P.410).
Account Limit for Each User
• Allows you to restrict access to each service and to set the maximum number of pages
allowed for the service per user.
For more information about the feature, refer to "Services Controlled by Authentication" (P.484).
• Allows you restrict creating/editing/using job flow sheets and folders per user.
For more information about the feature, refer to "Authentication for Job Flow Sheets and Folders"
(P.489).
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