Dear all!
First, I am new to tango controls. 
However, I managed to install tango (with mysql) using the packages provided in the ubuntu 17.10 repositories. I could start a server/device which I downloaded from the big collection of servers. I see, that my computer runs the tango-db service, the tango-accesscontrol service and the tango-Starter service. I can bring up the java applications like astor and jive (for this see my comment below).
Now, I would like to know, how to handle access for users and devices, commands etc.? I have seen in the docs that there is Tango Access Control, but I can not find the window to configure something.
I really appreciate your help, some TAC for Dummies. 
Thanks a lot and best wishes
Markus
Comment on java apps when running ubuntu 17.10:
the tango java apps are not part of the ubuntu repositories
What I did was:
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downloaded the tango source tarball tango-9.2.5a.tgz
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extracted it and executed the ./configure script
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the script has to run completely to setup the Makefiles in the subfolder, therefore it might be necessary to install development packages for zmq, omniorb ..
sudo apt-get install libomniorb-dev libcos4-dev libzmq3-dev
- changed to lib/java and issued
sudo make install
or perhaps better
sudo checkinstall
The latter will first build a deb-package and install this, so the just installed tango java apps will appear in the database of the apt packet manager.