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Controlling user access to the server

You can control who connects to the server by using `DBUser` objects. You can choose to allow anyone to connect to the server, or you can limit access to users who already have a `DBUser` object. To limit user access you would use an administrative movie to create new users' `DBUser` objects before allowing them to connect on their own. You can also choose to let all users connect, but restrict certain privileges to only those users with `DBUser` objects. You do this by giving users with `DBUser` objects a higher value for their `#userlevel` attribute and letting other users default to a lower value. See Configuring the server for more information.