Change basic user account settings
Select Users in the Server app sidebar.
Double-click a user account.
To select several accounts, hold down the Command key while clicking user accounts, click the Action pop-up menu
, then choose Edit User.Do any of the following:
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Change the user’s name
In the Full Name field, enter the user’s name.
The name can be up to 255 characters (or as few as 85 Japanese characters), and can include spaces.
Choose whether the user is a server administrator (you can do this for multiple users)
Select or deselect “Allow user to administer this server.”
Choose where the user’s home folder is located (you can do this for multiple users)
Choose a folder from the Home Folder pop-up menu.
The Home Folder pop-up menu appears if your server has file sharing turned on and at least one share point enables home folders.
Add the user to a group (you can do this for multiple users)
Click Add
, then enter the name of a group in the server’s directory. The name autocompletes as you type. Select a group name to add the user to the group. If the name doesn’t autocomplete, make sure you spelled the group name correctly.You can add users to groups on your server, but you can’t add users to groups in directory domains you’re connected to.
Remove a user from a group (you can do this for multiple users)
Select a group, then click Remove
.All user accounts on your server are included in the Workgroup group. Don’t remove users from this group.
Change the user’s picture (you can do this for multiple users)
Click the silhouette or the existing user picture and select a standard picture, or click Edit Picture for a customized picture.
When you click Edit Picture, you can take a picture with your computer’s camera or choose a picture already on your computer. After taking or choosing a picture, you can drag the picture to pan it or use the slider to zoom it.
When you finish customizing the picture, click Set.
Click Done to save your changes to the user account.