An account may be used by its owner or any authorized users . Table of contents Access Permissions Usage accounts may be restricted to control how funds in the account may be spent. For example, students in a course account may be prevented from using an expensive device such as the colour printer. Similarly, resource accounts may restrict access to the resource to a set of accounts. Access permissions defined at the group level are inherited by members of the group.
Authentication is performed by the resource usually by requiring a password.
Some resource agents allow the user to specify which account to charge. In this situation, if the user specifies an account, it will be used to match an account name or an account alias from the set of a user authorized accounts.in order to select an appropriate chargeable account. Table of contents Resource Charges Charges for the use of resources are calculated by resource agents. AccountStatus is not 'frozen' resource agent account exists with matching FundsType access restrictions of both usage and resource account are verified If the charge exceeds the account balance of the selected account, charges will be assessed against other user-authorized accounts unless the BillThisAccountOnly flag is set by the Resource agent. If the charge is approved, the funds are transferred from the usage account to the resource agent's account.