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Managing user accounts and user authentication – HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software User Manual

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3.

Edit and update user information.

The user information displayed in the User Profile subwindow is refreshed.

If the new user information is not applied immediately to the list of users in the Users subwindow,
you can click Refresh Tree to refresh this information in the navigation area.

Related topics

Viewing user profiles

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Changing user passwords (managing users and permissions)

A user with the Admin (user management) permission can change the passwords of registered users
(except for users who are externally authenticated). You cannot change the passwords of users for
whom external authentication is enabled because an external authentication server manages such
passwords. User passwords must satisfy preset conditions that include the passwords having valid
lengths and combinations of character types. To specify these conditions, from the Explorer menu,
choose Administration and then Security. For details on specifying these conditions, see

About

security settings

” on page 361.

To change a user password:

1.

From the Explorer menu, choose Administration and then Users and Permissions.

The Users and Permissions subwindow appears.

2.

Expand the object tree, and then select a user ID under Users.

The user-ID subwindow appears.

3.

Click Change Password.

The Change Password - user-ID dialog box appears.

4.

Change the password, and then update the information.

The password is changed.

TIP:

If you change the password for the built-in account (user ID:

System

) when Replication Manager is

being used in a cluster configuration, specify the same settings for all nodes in the cluster.

Related topics

Viewing a list of user permissions

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Viewing a summary of user permissions

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Managing user accounts and user authentication

This module describes tasks for managing users:

About account locking

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Locking user accounts

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Unlocking user accounts

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About user authentication

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Linking to an external authentication server

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