You can create users and assign properties to them by using You can also connect your system to an LDAP/Active
Directory database to get user information. You manage user security
permissions by assigning users to groups, so you must create some
users to test security features.
When you display a user record, three tabs are available:
- Details: Use this tab to edit most of the
user properties. The available properties are described below.
- Current Groups: Displays the access groups
the user is a member of, either directly or through a direct group
being a member of another group.
- Change Groups: Displays the groups the
user is a direct member of and allows you to add the user to groups
or remove the user from them.
For each user, you can set these properties on the Details tab:
- Name
- The display name and label for the user.
- Email
- The email address where the system can send email notifications
for this user.
Note: Emails are sent only to users explicitly selected
for notification. The following email address formats are supported.
Username is
the email user name.
Name is an arbitrary string, usually a
given name in some form.
username@host.com
name username@host.com
name "<username@host.com>"
name <username@host.com>
name "username@host.com"
- User Name
- The name used to log on to the Management Console.
- Password
- The password used to log on to the Management Console. The field
is not displayed for the user currently logged on. Use this field
to enter a new password or change the existing one. Enter the same
password in the Verified field.
- Limit
- Sets the maximum number of jobs the user can launch in a day.
When the limit is reached, the system displays messages indicating
that the user's run quota has been exceeded. If the value is
0, the system allows the user to run any number of builds.
- Time Zone
- The user's time zone. The system uses the time zone of the root
user as the default time zone for all times posted. Posted times use
the server host clock.
By default, in-system users and LDAP users
are assigned the same time zone as the root user. Users can edit the
time zone assigned to them.
- Verified
- Repeat the password here to verify it.
- Priority Login
- Specify this option to make the user a priority user. A priority
user can always log in to the system. If there are no more available
user licenses, then the system logs out the user with the oldest session
to make room for the priority user. The root user can always log in
and does not consume a license.
- Date Format
- Selects the user's preferred display format.
- Language
- Selects the user's language.
- Password Expires
- If this option is checked, then the user's password expires
after a number of days have elapsed, as specified in the Password
Expiration Days system setting.
- Uses Screen Reader
- If set to Yes, the interface is enabled to support screen reader
features for vision impaired users such as dynamic highlighting and
focusing.
- User Type
- Users may belong to one of three types:
- Normal: can access the console using a web client. They can make
changes to the system based on their access group membership and permissions.
Only one session is allowed per user.
- Read-only: can access the console using a web client. They cannot
make changes, except to their personal information, such as their
password and preferences. Only one session is allowed per user.
- API: cannot access the console using a web client. Users of this
type access the system using a client developed with the Java API
or Perl API. The same API user may have more than one login session.
Session information is shared automatically.
- Calendar Start Day of Week
- Select the day of the week that the Schedule calendar displays
first. The default is Sunday.
- Truncation
- Controls how many characters display in the lists and pulldown
menus. For example, if set to 20, a project name will only display
the first 20 characters of the name.
- Searching
- Determines how Filter fields throughout the product perform searches.
Values are as follows:
- Case Sensitive (the default) - the search considers the case of
each letter.
- Case Insensitive - the search does not consider case.
- Step Log Initial View
- Specifies how the step log is positioned for viewing when it is
opened in job results. If set to First Page (the default), the view
is positioned at the first page of the log. If set to Last Page, then
the view is positioned at the last page of the log.