Notes for SPD Server Administrators

The SPD Server administrator performs the maintenance and configuration functions for SPD Server. The following sections contain guidelines for administrators.

SPD Server User IDs

The SPD Server administrator needs to be familiar with the SPD Server psmgr utility.
The SPD Server system uses its own layer of access controls that overlay Windows access permissions. SPD Server processes run in the context of a Windows user ID, and that user owns all of the resulting SPD Server file resources that are created.
Each SPD User is given their own SPD Server user ID and password. The user ID and password are needed to complete the LIBNAME connection to SPD Server. All resources that a user creates are owned by the user. An SPD Server user can access only resources that that user created, or resources that another SPD Server user grants them access to via SPD ACLs. There also exists an "anonymous" user account that any SPD Server user can access with no password, and where all resources that are created by the anonymous user are accessible to any other SPD Server user.