Work with user and group accounts

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What do you want to do?

Understand security accounts

Learn how to organize security accounts

Create accounts, add users, and print information

Create a security administrator account

Create a security user account

Create a security group account

Add users to security groups

Print information about security users and groups

Delete accounts and remove users

Remove users from security groups

Delete a security user account

Delete a security group account

Work with passwords

Create or change a security account password

Clear a security account password

View or transfer ownership

View or transfer ownership of individual objects in a secure database

Transfer ownership of an entire database to another administrator