Security

Security of your RICOH ProcessDirector system includes determining who can access RICOH ProcessDirector and what functions they can do. You use RICOH ProcessDirector user names, groups, and locations to control security.

In this section:

  1. Managing passwords
    Users must have a RICOH ProcessDirector user name and password to access the system and to do RICOH ProcessDirector actions.
  2. Giving a user system user authority
    If you want to let other users access RICOH ProcessDirector file systems and run the RICOH Visual Workbench user interface, you can give a user name virtually the same authority as the RICOH ProcessDirector system user (aiw1 is the default).
  3. Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security support
    RICOH ProcessDirector provides support for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, so you can protect the print data in the system.
  4. Managing access to objects using locations
    Many objects, such as jobs, printers, input devices, inserter controllers, and barcode readers have a Location property. The user property notebook has two properties to manage access to locations. The Allowed locations property affects which objects the user can see in the user interface. The Locations to show property lets users select which of their allowed locations to display in the user interface. On the Preferences dialog, each user can change the Locations to show property to add or remove locations from their current view.
  5. Restricting use of the LPD protocol to submit jobs
    You can limit the hosts that can use the LPD protocol to submit jobs to all the input devices with the same parent server. The default is to allow input from all systems.

Related information:

Setting up security
Migrating to LDAP security
Setting up to use LDAP authentication
Changing group membership for a user
Advanced security functions
Advanced security functions
Parent topic: Using RICOH ProcessDirector