GeniusPro/Lightpalette Operator's Manual - Strand Lighting

Server Software
Admin is like any other user, and is set with all access rights enabled (as indeed any user can be), but
is recognised for special treatment by the software. This includes being allowed to edit any user’s
access rights at Access Rights setup. More than one admin user can be logged in at the same time.
The following topics are covered in this section:
■ Configuring Logins
■ Configuring Access Rights
■ Console Access Rights
■ Login Display
■ Logging In Without Using the Login Display
■ Seeing Who Else is Logged In
■ Exit Softkey
Configuring Logins
Each user must be named, using up to 8 alpha-numeric characters. This forms the basis of the user
configuration file. The admin user’s file is called ADMIN.USR, and is supplied with the operating
software. You can use this file as a template for all users. The act of creating a new user is simply one
of copying
ADMIN.USR to, say, FRED.USR.
The user file contains five sections:
1. Password
2. Access rights
3. User setup preferences
4. Last-used show file names
5. Channel partition group
You can edit the password, access rights and partition group channels as required, but a new user can
log in if no editing is done; you can change these settings at any time. You can set the initial User
Setup values if you like, but the software will rewrite this section when the user logs out. Do not edit the
last-used show section - the software does this for you.
Each line in the file starting with # is a comment, and is ignored by the software. The other lines are of
the form
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