The Security/Users Subtab

Opening a Security/Users Subtab

Security/Users Subtab Layout

Working in a Security/Users Subtab

Controlling Which Users are Displayed

Creating a New User

Operating on a Selected User

The Users subtab of the Security tab displays the repository's set of registered AccuRev users A person who uses an AccuRev client program to access (read and/or change) the data in the AccuRev repository. Access is granted only to those who login with a "username" that was previously registered in the AccuRev repository. See login., and provides commands for maintaining the set of users. Various security (and non-security) features involve users:

See also:

AccuRev Security Overview

Opening a Security/Users Subtab

Choose Admin > Security from the GUI main menu to display the Security tab. Then, click the Users subtab.

Security/Users Subtab Layout

The Users subtab contains a table with these columns:

Status

(appears if Show hidden users  is checked) Inactive indicates that the username has been removed, and can't be used in a Login command, or in the definition of an ACL A data structure that controls the rights of one or more users, or groups of users, to access the data within a particular depot or stream. entry or a lock A control on the ability to perform promote and include/exclude operations involving the stream.. A removed user can subsequently be reactivated.

Name

The username. You can change a username (for example, from derek to dpost) without disrupting AccuRev's bookkeeping, because it tracks user identities by their unique, immutable integer IDs.

A user cannot have the same name as any other user, or the same name as any group. See User-Specified Names for AccuRev Entities.

#

The integer that uniquely identifies this user. This number cannot be changed. [note The same "namespace" of integer IDs is shared by users and groups.]

 

 

 

 

Working in a Security/Users Subtab

You can use this subtab to activate/deactivate users, and to perform operations that maintain the user registry.

Controlling Which Users are Displayed

Show hidden users

If checked, the table includes users that have been deactivated with the Remove command. This also adds a Status column.

Creating a New User

Use the toolbar button to create a new AccuRev user identity.

Add User

Add a new user to the repository's user registry, optionally assigning a password to the user. In order to succeed, there must be at least one available user license.

 

 

 

 

Operating on a Selected User

You can choose any of the following commands from the context menu of a selected user:

Change User Name

Change the name that AccuRev associates with this user identity. See User-Specified Names for AccuRev Entities.

Change Password

Change this user's password. [note AccuRev allows you to change any user’s password, not just your own. But your organization might use a trigger The AccuRev facility that enables user-defined procedures (trigger scripts) to be performed automatically before or after certain operations take place. to disallow all but a few administrative users from changing another user's password.] See User-Specified Names for AccuRev Entities.

Reactivate User

Reactivate a user who has been deactivated with Remove User. In order to succeed, there must be at least one available user license.

Remove User

Deactivate the selected user. No one can Login as that user, but the user still appears in the repository's historical records, such as the History Browser. You can use the Reactivate User command to bring back a removed user.