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.
Click to display a list of current users. A user panel is
displayed after the list. The system displays the Name, Login, Email,
Limit, Activity (elapsed time since last user activity), and Time
Zone of each user.
The user record sets default properties for the way that the
user can interact with the system and controls the user's login
name, password, and password expiration. You can provide the data
for a user record to the system through the Management Console or
the data can be derived from an LDAP/Active Directory database.
Note: When you edit a user whose record is derived from an LDAP database,
many of the fields on the User page are disabled. You change these
properties in the source database.
To add a new user, click Add User, edit the panel, and then
click Update.
When you display a user record, three tabs are available:
- Details: Displays the user properties that
you can edit. The available properties are described later in this
topic.
- Current Groups: Displays the access groups
that the user is a member of, either directly or through a group that
is a member of another group.
- Change Groups: Displays the groups that
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 the following properties on the Details tab:
- Name
- Specify the display name and label for the user.
- Email
- Specify the email address where the system can send email notifications
to this user.
Note: emails are sent only to users explicitly selected
for notification.
- User Name
- Specify the name that the user types to log on to the Management
Console.
- Password
- Type the password that the user provides to log on to the Management
Console. The field is not displayed for users who are logged on. Use
this field to enter a new password or change one. Enter the same password
in the Verified field.
- Limit
- Specify the maximum number of jobs the user can launch in a day.
When the limit is reached, the system displays messages that indicate
that the user's run quota has been exceeded.
- Time Zone
- Specify the user's time zone. The system uses the time zone of
the root user as the default time zone for all times posted.
By
default, in-system users and LDAP users are assigned the same time
zone as the root user. Users can edit their assigned time zones.
Note: When
upgrading to Build Forge 7.1 from a previous version, you will need
to manually reset the time zone of the root user.
- Verified
- Repeat the password to verify that you type it correctly.
- Priority Login
- Specify whether the user is a priority user. A priority user can
always log in to the system; if there are no more available user licenses,
the system logs out the user with the oldest session so that the priority
user can log in. The root user is always a priority user.
- Date Format
- Sets the user's preferred date format.
- Language
- Sets the user's preferred language.
- Password Expires
- Specify that the user's password will expire. 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
- Enable the interface to support screen reader features such as
dynamic highlighting and focusing.
- Calendar Start Day of Week
- Select the day of the week that the Schedule calendar displays
first. The default is Sunday.