Managing User Groups

You can make a user account a member of more than one group to restrict the user’s access to resources on the local computer and the network. For example, you can add a user to the User group and the Guests group. When you add a user to more than one group, the deny permission of a group overrides the allow permission of the other group. For example, user is a member of the Users group. If you add the same user to the Guests group, the permissions of the guests group overrides the permissions of the users group.

To add a user to a group:

1. Open the Computer Management Console.

2. Expand Local Users and Groups.

3. Click Groups. A list of groups appears.

4. Select the group to add users.

5. Select Action -> Properties. The Group Properties dialog box appears.

The options available in the Group Properties dialog box are:

> Description - Provides an explanation about the group

> Add - Specifies to add a user to the group

> Remove - Specifies to delete a user from the group

6. Click Add The Select Users dialog box appears.

7. Enter the user name in the Enter the object names to select text area, for example User.

8. Click OK. The Added user appears.

9. Click Apply.