Changing Your Security Access
If you have several responsibilities and you want to work in Oracle Applications under a different responsibility, you can do so without exiting Oracle Applications. Similarly, if you have several different sign-ons for different responsibility sets, and you want to log on with a different user sign-on, you can do so without exiting Oracle Applications.
You can also change the password to your user sign-on at any time. Your system administrator may require all users to periodically change their passwords to maintain better security to Oracle Applications.
1. Click in the Navigate window or choose Navigator from the Window menu to make the Navigate window active.
2. Choose Switch Responsibility from the Special menu.
If there are windows still open in your current responsibility, Oracle Applications asks you to save your changes, if there are any, before it closes those windows. You may cancel switching responsibilities by choosing Cancel in the save changes window.
Note: The save changes window only appears if there are any changes to save. If there are no changes to save, all open windows other than the Navigate window close, and Oracle Applications displays the responsibility list.
Note: If you have only one responsibility, the Switch Responsibility menu item is disabled.
3. Select a new responsibility from the Responsibilities window and choose OK.
The Navigate window title and contents then update to reflect the new responsibility you choose.
1. Click in the Navigate window or choose Navigator from the Window menu to make the Navigate window active.
2. Choose Change Password from the Special menu, to display the Password Update window.
3. Enter your old password in the Old Password field.
4. Enter your new password in the New Password field.
5. Enter your new password again in the Re-enter New Password field.
If the second entry of your new password does not match your first, Oracle Applications asks you to re-enter your new password again, until both entries match. Your new password takes effect immediately.
Note: If you change your mind and do not want to alter your password, choose Cancel to close the Password Update window.
To sign on as a different user:
1. Click in the Navigate window or choose Navigator from the Window menu to make the Navigate window active.
2. Choose Sign On Again from the Special menu, to display the Oracle Applications sign-on window.
3. Enter the username and password for your other sign-on and choose Connect.
Attention: When you sign on to Oracle Applications as a different user, any windows that are currently opened will be automatically closed. If you have not saved your changes, you will be prompted to do so before you are allowed to continue.
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