Settings
6.4 User management
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Depending on your own user role, this dialog offers various options:
Table 6- 30 Role-related rights in the "User profiles" dialog
Role / authorization
Rights
Service, User1, Standard
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Changing own password
Administrator
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Adding users
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Deleting users (limited)
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Changing the role of a user
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Assigning/revoking administrator rights
•
Changing own password
Automatic logoff
Enable the "Automatic logoff" function to ensure that a user is logged off after a specified
period of inactivity. This ensures that no one has unauthorized access to the WBM.
You can specify the time interval until automatic logoff yourself. You will be reminded about
the pending logoff in a dialog window a few seconds prior to automatic logoff.
User profiles
Depending on your own user role, this dialog allows the following actions for user
management:
Table 6- 31 Actions in the "User profiles" dialog
Actions
Description
Add new user
This selection allows an administrator to create new user IDs. A max-
imum total of 16 user IDs are possible. You must set the following
parameters when creating a new user:
•
Name
Maximum of 9 characters. The name must be unique.
•
Password
At least 8, maximum of 16 characters. Must contain at least one
number.
Delete
This selection allows an administrator to delete existing user profiles.
Their own user profile cannot be deleted.
Edit
This selection allows an administrator to edit existing user profiles.
You can assign a different role and administrator rights to user pro-
files.