Managing Your Own Account (Task Map)

When you log into the console with a user name other than admin, you can manage your own user account. You do not have access to other user account features.

This section includes the procedure to change your password. After logging in, you can open the User Editor of your own account and change the password.

The first time that any user logs into the console, Sun Update Connection – Enterprise automatically opens the Change Password window, enabling you to give your account a password that is private even from the admin user who created the account.

Type and verify a new password for this user account and then click OK. The change takes effect immediately.

If the Change Password window does not open automatically on the first login, the default behavior of Sun Update Connection – Enterprise has been changed. See DM Preferences – Clients.

The following table identifies the tasks that you might perform when you want to manage your own account.

To Change Your Password On Demand

In this procedure you change the password of your user account at any time.

1. Log in as any user.

2. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Users button.

   • From the Tools menu, choose Users.

   The Users window opens.

3. Select your currently logged in user name from the list.

4. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar of the Users window, click the Edit button.

   • Right-click the selected user name and choose Edit.

   The User Editor window opens.

5. Change your password and then verify it.

6. Click OK.

   The change takes effect immediately.

To Change Your Email Address

You can receive emails from Sun Update Connection – Enterprise when specific events occur. In this procedure you change the email address to which you receive event notifications.

1. Log in as any user.

2. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Users button.

   • From the Tools menu, choose Users.

   The Users window opens.

3. Select your currently logged in user name from the list.

4. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar of the Users window, click the Edit button.

   • Right-click the selected user name and choose Edit.

   The User Editor window opens.

5. Change your email address.

   You can also change the selections of events for which you will receive notification; change the checkbox selections under Notify When:

   • Job paused for confirmation

   • Job finished

   • Job failed

   • Host disconnected

6. Click OK.

   The change takes effect immediately.

To Relogin with a Different User Name

In this procedure you log out of the console and automatically re-login, without having to type the shell command line to start the console, with a different user name and password.

This feature is not available in the console on Microsoft Windows.

1. Log in as any user.

2. From the File menu, choose Login as different user.

3. In the confirmation dialog box that opens, click Relogin.

   The console goes down and then closes. The startup windows open; then the Login window opens.

4. Type the alternate user name and password, and then click OK.