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Assigning a user to an owner.

• Login as a Server Admin
• Right-click the Server Name -> Choose Server Admin -> User Editor.
• Click the User you want to set the owner of.
• Click the Info tab.
• Select the user you wish to be the owner of this user, under the Owner Select Box.
• Click Update.

Owner Policy:

Ventrilo uses what is called an Owner policy. Rather then trying to lump accounts into pre-defined groups that have specific access rights and then trying to make exceptions to certain accounts, Ventrilo works on the concept that a server admin or an account with the "Add Users" right will accept responsibility for certain accounts. There are many benefits to this concept.

• You can have one top level server admin, preferably the person who rents the server who is responsible for assigning other accounts with the "Add users" right.
• These other users can add new accounts to the server. When they do the owner of the new account is the person that just created them. This "Add users" account will only see those accounts that they have created or ownership has been assigned to them. Consequently it falls on his shoulders to accept responsibility for the actions and behavior of the accounts they have created.
• If you have multiple departments, organizations, teams or guilds that share a common server then one member of each organization can be given the "Add users" right. This person answers directly to the "Server Admin" and can be given sufficient power to manage his little slice of the server without interfering with another organization. Their level of access is dictated by the "Server Admin" provided the server admin does not assign the "Add users" account the "Server admin" right.

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