Registering ALPass Users

After Installation, Enter the First User

ALPass needs you to create ALPass user accounts to securely manage each user's web logins and passwords. ALPass user accounts are not used on the internet, and that information is never transmitted over the internet by ALPass.

An ALPass user is the ID that you use to contain all of your web logins, so logging into ALPass under a specific user name will give you access to all of that user's web logins. You can think of it as a container to hold all of your other web logins.

Below are the login and new user dialogs. When you run ALPass for the first time, the login dialog is displayed. Since there are no users yet, you'll have to click the New User button to create a login for yourself. Enter the new login ID and password. Confirm the password and click OK. Make sure you do not lose this password. If you do, you cannot get it back and the ALPass user is lost forever.

ALPass securelogin window

Add a new user to ALPass

CAUTION: After you create a user, you are prompted with a warning that if you lose or forget the password, it cannot be recovered. Actually, that's not completely true... if you have a really massive computer and a few hundred trillion years to waste, you may have a chance of getting it... i.e. DO NOT LOSE YOUR ALPASS PASSWORD! We cannot get it back either, so don't ask. Another way to look at it is that your information is VERY secure.
DO NOT FORGET YOUR PASSWORD!!!

Adding More Users to ALPass

For computers where many people use them, like in schools, ALPass can securely add more users. No user can access another user's encrypted login database information without the correct password.
To add a new user, run ALPass and click the New User button.

Click the New User button to add new users

Creating more users is exactly the same as when you created the first user. Enter the new user account name, a password, confirm the password, and click OK. The same password warning is displayed. Click OK... and remember the password.
After the new user is created, you can then setup the user's personal preferences and enter web logins and passwords for later use.

Create a new ALPass user safely and securely on your own computer

To login to your personal user account, choose your user account login ID from the ID dropdown menu in the login dialog. Enter your password, and click OK.

Choose a user from the drop down menu

IMPORTANT: On Windows NT based systems (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP), the above method only works when the current Windows account is a member of the Administrators group or the Power Users group. For more information on Administrators and Power Users, please refer to your Windows documentation.

Adding Users to ALPass on Windows NT, 2000, and XP from the Users Group

To add a new ALPass user account from inside of a normal Windows User account (i.e. Not a Power User or Administrator), you can either:

Get a Power User or an Administrator to create a user folder for you in the /Program Files/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/ directory and call it the same as your Windows login ID, then give you full permissions on the folder, or

You can set your save preference to somewhere in your My Documents folder.

If you choose option 1, contact your system administrator.

If you are the system administrator, see below.

If you choose option 2:

Create a user account in ALPass as normal. Ignore any errors you see.

On the ALPass menu, click Options and choose Preferences. (Enter your password to access your personal preferences.)

On the Preferences General tab, click the ellipsis (3 dots) and browse to a folder under My Documents. Create a new folder if needed. Click OK. Click Apply. Your ALPass encrypted login database is saved to the selected folder.

Make any other preference changes you wish and click OK.

System Administrators and Power Users

To enable a user to use ALPass, create a new folder under in the %Program Files%/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/ directory and name it the same as the requesting user's Windows login ID. Give the user full permissions on the folder and ensure that inheritance is enabled. e.g. Sally's Windows login ID is Sal. Create %Program Files%/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/Sal/ and give the Sal user account full permissions on the Sal directory. (Right-click on the Sal folder and choose Properties, click the Security tab, select the Sal identity, and check Full.)

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After Installation, Enter the First User

ALPass needs you to create ALPass user accounts to securely manage each user's web logins and passwords. ALPass user accounts are not used on the internet, and that information is never transmitted over the internet by ALPass. An ALPass user is the ID that you use to contain all of your web logins, so logging into ALPass under a specific user name will give you access to all of that user's web logins. You can think of it as a container to hold all of your other web logins. Below are the login and new user dialogs. When you run ALPass for the first time, the login dialog is displayed. Since there are no users yet, you'll have to click the New User button to create a login for yourself. Enter the new login ID and password. Confirm the password and click OK. Make sure you do not lose this password. If you do, you cannot get it back and the ALPass user is lost forever.

CAUTION: After you create a user, you are prompted with a warning that if you lose or forget the password, it cannot be recovered. Actually, that's not completely true... if you have a really massive computer and a few hundred trillion years to waste, you may have a chance of getting it... i.e. DO NOT LOSE YOUR ALPASS PASSWORD! We cannot get it back either, so don't ask. Another way to look at it is that your information is VERY secure.

Adding More Users to ALPass

For computers where many people use them, like in schools, ALPass can securely add more users. No user can access another user's encrypted login database information without the correct password. To add a new user, run ALPass and click the New User button.

Creating more users is exactly the same as when you created the first user. Enter the new user account name, a password, confirm the password, and click OK. The same password warning is displayed. Click OK... and remember the password. After the new user is created, you can then setup the user's personal preferences and enter web logins and passwords for later use.

To login to your personal user account, choose your user account login ID from the ID dropdown menu in the login dialog. Enter your password, and click OK.

IMPORTANT: On Windows NT based systems (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP), the above method only works when the current Windows account is a member of the Administrators group or the Power Users group. For more information on Administrators and Power Users, please refer to your Windows documentation.

Adding Users to ALPass on Windows NT, 2000, and XP from the Users Group

To add a new ALPass user account from inside of a normal Windows User account (i.e. Not a Power User or Administrator), you can either: Get a Power User or an Administrator to create a user folder for you in the /Program Files/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/ directory and call it the same as your Windows login ID, then give you full permissions on the folder, or You can set your save preference to somewhere in your My Documents folder. If you choose option 1, contact your system administrator. If you are the system administrator, see below. If you choose option 2: Create a user account in ALPass as normal. Ignore any errors you see. On the ALPass menu, click Options and choose Preferences. (Enter your password to access your personal preferences.) On the Preferences General tab, click the ellipsis (3 dots) and browse to a folder under My Documents. Create a new folder if needed. Click OK. Click Apply. Your ALPass encrypted login database is saved to the selected folder. Make any other preference changes you wish and click OK.

System Administrators and Power Users

To enable a user to use ALPass, create a new folder under in the %Program Files%/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/ directory and name it the same as the requesting user's Windows login ID. Give the user full permissions on the folder and ensure that inheritance is enabled. e.g. Sally's Windows login ID is Sal. Create %Program Files%/ESTsoft/ALPass/UserData/Sal/ and give the Sal user account full permissions on the Sal directory. (Right-click on the Sal folder and choose Properties, click the Security tab, select the Sal identity, and check Full.) - [ Contents ] - [ Index ] - [ Top ] Copyright 1999-2007 by ESTsoft Corp. All rights reserved. Get More ALTools