Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

16.5 User groups
Note: In case of user groups, collisions do not occur as local groups are always independent
from the Active Directory (even if the name of the local group is identical with the name of the
group in the particular domain).
16.5 User groups
User accounts can be sorted into groups. Creating user groups provides the following benefits:
• Specific access rights can be assigned to a group of users. These rights complement
rights of individual users.
• Each group can be used when traffic and access rules are defined. This simplifies the
definition process so that you will not need to define the same rule for each user.
User groups Definitions
User groups can be defined in User and Groups → Groups.
Figure 16.16
Kerio Control user groups
Domain
Use the Domain option to select a domain for which user accounts or other parameters
will be defined. This item provides a list of mapped Active Directory domains (see
chapter 16.4) and the local user database.
In Kerio Control, it is possible to create groups only in the local user database. It is not
possible to create groups in mapped Active Directory domains. It also not possible to
import groups from the Windows NT domain or from Active Directory.
In case of groups mapped in Active Directory domains, it is possible to set only access
rules (see below — step 3 of the user group definition wizard).
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