8.1 Administrator account
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## 8.1 Administrator account

Apart from mailbox access, a user account can also be used for access to Kerio MailServer administration, provided that the user has such rights. The basic administrator account is created during the installation process. It has the same properties as other user accounts and can be deleted by any user with read/write access rights.

The default administration account can create and manage:

- public folders — for details on purpose and behaviour of these folders, refer to section 26.1 Public folders

- archive folders — for details on purpose and behaviour of these folders, refer to section 15.1 Archiving

The default administrator account also manages archive folders (if archiving is enabled — see chapter 15.2 Back-up of user mailboxes and basic server configuration). Any message which passed through Kerio MailServer can be found in the archive.

Administrator can make archive folders shared with other users. However, since messages of all users are archived, only a confidential administrator (or a tiny group of confidential persons) should be allowed to access these folders.

### Warning

Passwords for those user accounts that have full administration rights should be kept close so that they cannot be misused by an unauthorized user.

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