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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
Adding Guest Accounts
You can add guest accounts individually or generate multiple guest accounts automatically.
To Add an Individual Account:
Step 1 Under the list of accounts, click Add Guest.
Step 2 In the Settings tab of the Add Guest Account window configure:
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Profile: Select the Guest Profile to generate this account from.
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Name: Enter a name for the account or click Generate. The generated name is the
prefix in the profile and a random two or three digit number.
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Comment: Enter a descriptive comment.
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Password: Enter the user account password or click Generate. The generated
password is a random string of eight alphabetic characters.
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Confirm Password: If you did not generate the password, re-enter it.
Note Make a note of the password. Otherwise you will have to reset it.
Step 3 In the Guest Services tab, configure:
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Enable Guest Services Privilege: Check this for the account to be enabled upon
creation.
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Enforce login uniqueness: Check this to allow only one instance of this account to log
into the security appliance at one time. Leave it unchecked to allow multiple users to
use this account at once.
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Automatically prune account upon account expiration: Check this to have the
account removed from the database after its lifetime expires.
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Activate account upon first login: Check this option to begin the timing for the
account expiration.
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Account Expires: This setting defines how long an account remains on the security
appliance before the account expires. If Automatically prune account upon account
expiration is enabled, the account is deleted when it expires. If the Automatically
prune account upon account expiration checkbox is cleared, the account remains in
the list of guest accounts with an Expired status, allowing easy reactivation. This
setting overrides the account lifetime setting in the profile.