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  3. Section IV. End user
  4. Provide Portal access and user privileges
  5. Editing user accounts

Editing user accounts

When you create a user account, you create the user details, access privileges, group membership and a password. Users can modify their passwords and most of their profile information, however, they cannot modify their access privileges. Preferences for locale, number and date formatting are set by the user using the user account menu.

See Manage your profile and set a language preference.

  1. Select Admin > Users > Users and Privileges. The window displays all Portal users.

  2. Search for a user if required.

    See Searching for users and user groups.

  3. Select a user and click Edit. The Edit User dialog is displayed.

  4. Revise the fields.

    • Required fields are denoted with an asterisk. First name and last name fields are limited to 64 characters.

    • The Login ID should be in an email format, as required by LDAP. This field is limited to 128 characters.

    • From the selector, select the User Type. For a definition of the privileges associated with a user type,

      See About user types.

    • Select a Home Host group. A home host group is a host group to which a user belongs. This limits a user's access to data. A user can access any host groups that are lower in the hierarchy from the home host group.

  5. Click OK to edit the user.

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