Using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator
The VSS Administrator enables you to manage users that have access to the SourceSafe databases. Using this tool, you can
- Add, edit, and delete users who have access to the VSS databases
- Change user passwords
- Set user access to read-only
- Lock a VSS database
- Clean up a VSS database and remove temporary files
- Create new VSS databases
- Archive projects
- Restore projects
- Change default application-level defaults, such as multiple checkouts, default project folders, and file type extensions that are allowed to be stored in the VSS databases
Figure 20.1 shows the VSS Administrator open with the Options dialog in the foreground. When you install VSS, two users are added to the database by default: Admin and Guest. The Admin password is blank, and if you're working on a network with multiple developers, you'll most likely want to change this password. On single-developer installation, you can leave the Admin password blank for ease of use. Each time you open a VSS tool, you must enter the username and password.
Figure 20.1. The Visual SourceSafe Administrator.

Depending on the environment you're working in, you might never use this tool. I've used SourceSafe for years in single-developer mode, and I've never opened the Admin tool.