About users

If you select either OS based authentication mode, users with local accounts are added to the Authorized Users Available list in the following format: .\<username>. Domain users are added in the format <domain>\username>.

Some user names are reserved by Application Server. These Reserved system names include both admin and administrator. For more information, see Reserved system names.

If you select OS Group Based authentication mode and use local accounts, the local account must exist on each node in the Galaxy for successful authentication of that user on any computer in the Galaxy. OS groups are added in the format <domain>\<groupname>.

Two users are defined by default when a new Galaxy is created: Administrator and DefaultUser. These cannot be deleted in an open security setting and both users are associated with the default roles, Administrator and Default. See About roles for more information.

Important: Do not use the "Administrator" user account to log in to Application Server, InTouch ViewApps, or other System Platform components. "Administrator" is a reserved System Platform name. Some modules of Application Server and System Platform view "Administrator" as a system admin, while other modules view it as a Galaxy admin.