Notes for SPD Server Administrators

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

SPD Server Users

The SPD Server administrator needs to be familiar with the SPD Server psmgr utility. The server uses its own layer of access controls that overlay Windows access permissions. 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 server user is given their own SPD Server user ID and password. The user ID and password are needed to connect to SPD Server. All resources that a user creates are owned by the user. A server user can access only resources that the user created and resources that another server user grants them access to via server Access Control Lists (ACLs). There also exists an Anonymous user account that any server user can access with no password, and where all resources that are created by the Anonymous user are accessible to any other server user.For more information, see Anonymous User ID.
Last updated: February 3, 2017