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User Authentication
To display: [Utility][Administrator Settings][User Authentication/Account Track][General Settings][User Authentication]
Configure the general settings for user authentication.
Settings | Description | |
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[Authenticate]/[OFF] | Specify whether to implement user authentication. [OFF] is specified by default. | |
[Authentication Method] | Select a user authentication method. | |
[ON (MFP)] | The authentication function of this machine is used for user authentication. This authentication method only allows users registered on this machine to use it. [ON (MFP)] is specified by default. | |
[External Server Authentication] | Interacts with the authentication server used for user authentication in the operating environment. This authentication method only allows users registered on the authentication server to use this machine. Register the authentication server beforehand from [Administrator Settings] - [User Authentication/Account Track] - [External Server Settings]. | |
[Main + External Server] | Select this option to enable login using the authentication function of the MFP in case a trouble occurs on the external authentication server. | |
[Enhanced Server Authentication] | Interacts with the enhanced server such as Authentication Manager. This authentication method only allows users registered on the enhanced server to use this machine. | |
[Main + Enhanced Server] | Select this option to enable login using the authentication function of the MFP in case a trouble occurs on the enhanced server such as Authentication Manager. | |
[Default Authentication Method] | Select your preferred authentication method if [Main + External Server] or [Main + Enhanced Server] is selected with [Authentication Method].
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[Overwrite User Info] | Configure this option if [External Server Authentication] or [Main + External Server] is selected with [Authentication Method]. When the external server authentication is used, authenticated user information is also managed on this machine. If the number of users who have executed the external server authentication reaches the maximum number of users this machine can manage, authentication of any new users will not be permitted. Select whether to allow the user to overwrite registered user information for that case. If you select [Allow], the oldest authenticated user information is erased and the new user is registered. If [Enhanced Server Authentication] or [Main + Enhanced Server] is selected with [Authentication Method], [Allow] is specified forcibly. [Restrict] is specified by default. | |
[Temporarily Save Authentication Info.] | Select whether to temporarily save authentication information in the main unit against a case where an external authentication server shuts down. [OFF] is specified by default. To temporarily save authentication information, specify the timing to reconnect to the authentication server and the validity period of the data to be saved temporarily.
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