WSS Admin Guide

Activating or Deactivating Users

You can activate or de-activate individual users. De-activated users remain in the system, but they are prevented from accessing the Web Security Service.

Note: To change status, you must have Edit permission for Manage User.

A user's status can be:

• Active. The user's web traffic is being filtered by the service.
• Inactive. The user is unable to use the service; no filtering occurs.
• Pending Activation. The user was added through LDAP and requires activation. Users register themselves to be activated. See Using LDAP Settings to Add Users to the Group for ways to activate the user.
• Group Inactive. The group to which the user belongs is not active, therefore, all members become inactive. You cannot manually reactivate these users while they belong to the inactive group. To activate, either move users to an active group or reactivate the group itself.
• Inactive (IP Group). The group was originally user based, and while it had users, it was changed to IP address based (Identify By is set to IP). IP-based groups must not have users. To activate users, move them to active groups.

Users can also be de-activated at the group level. In this case, you can reactivate them only at the group level. For details about how a user is affected by the group's status, see Changing a Group's Status.

To de-activate an active user:

On the Users tab's list, click an active user's Deactivate link. The status changes to Inactive. The link changes to Activate.

To activate a de-activated or pending user:

On the Users tab's list, click an inactive or pending user's Activate link. The status changes to Active. The link changes to Deactivate.

To change a user's status of Group Inactive:

Reactivate the entire group on the Groups tab or move the user to an active group.