User rights can be categorized as viewing rights, access rights, and global actions rights. By assigning the user rights, you can determine who is allowed to view which video and/or to perform actions such as protecting, locking or exporting videos.

The viewing rights apply to both the live videos and the video recordings.

Viewing rights
View live video	A user granted this right can view live videos
View recorded video	Applies to "standard" videos, which are neither protected nor locked and which are overwritten cyclically.
View protected video	Protected videos are stored for a longer period than standard videos. These videos are created either with help of the video triggers in ibaPDA or manually by means of the timeline in the ibaCapture.
View locked video	Locked videos are continuously recorded videos that are manually marked as locked in the timeline in the ibaCapture view.
Live access to the main stream	A user granted this right can watch the main stream in live mode. Without this permission, the user will only have access to an alternative stream. If no alternative stream is available, an error message is displayed.

Action rights
Export videos	In order to export a video to an MP4 file while viewing it in the ibaCapture view or in ibaAnalyzer, the user must be granted the specific right. Users can only export videos for which they have viewing rights. If a user, for example, has no viewing rights for Camera 1, the exported MP4 file will not contain video from Camera 1.
Protect video	A user granted this right can protect different sections of a video in the timeline of the ibaCapture view or remove the protection. ibaPDA basically has the right to protect videos by means of the video triggers. This function does not require a user login.
Lock video	A user granted this right can lock or unlock different sections of a video in the timeline of the ibaCapture view.
PTZ control	A user granted this right can control PTZ cameras. The user can be assigned this right for all PTZ cameras or for specific, selected cameras.

Global actions
Activate panic mode	A user granted this right can enable the panic mode via the timeline of the ibaCapture view. With panic mode enabled, only the administrator can view videos.
Security administration	A user granted this right can configure security settings.
Camera configuration	A user granted this right can configure cameras.
Configuring priorities for live view	A user with this right can configure priorities for the live view.

User permissions dialog

The user permissions dialog consists of

1	Ribbon with commands
2	Configuration tree
3	Permissions table

When an individual user or user group is selected in the configuration tree, the Local menu appears. This menu provides commands for actions by users and user groups.

Each right can be assigned to either all cameras, no camera or specific cameras. The camera list can be opened by clicking on the arrow button. Select all or specific cameras by means of a checkmark and confirm with <OK>.

If a user group to which the user belongs has been granted more permissions than the user itself, the user's permissions are overridden by the permissions of the user group.

In the example above, the user is not allowed to view protected videos from any camera. But a user group to which it belongs has the permission to view protected videos from all cameras. As a result, the user has also the permission to view protected videos from all cameras. If the permissions granted to the user and the user group differ, the valid permission is stated in orange in the “Final Value” column.

The user's password can be changed by clicking on the <Reset password> button.

For security reasons, the password must be entered twice.