Creating User Accounts for P6 EPPM

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Follow these steps to create new user accounts for applications in P6 EPPM including P6, P6 Professional, P6 Team Member interfaces, and P6 Progress Reporter. These steps represent the minimum you must do to create a user account. You can also configure user access to grant or deny a user's access to data.

Note: When you copy a user the user's settings are copied. The new user will have the same Resource Access, Global Security Profile, Project Access, Module Access, Global Preferences, User Interface View, Dashboards, Activities Toolbars, Activities Views, EPS Toolbars, EPS Views, Resource Assignment Toolbars, and Resource Assignment Views as the copied user. The user’s Associated Resource, E-mail address, Phone, and View Preferences are not copied. If the users view is grouped by global security profile or user interface view and you select a different grouping band before pasting a copied user, the new user will be assigned with the global security profile or user interface view corresponding to the grouping band you selected.

To create a new user account:

1. Click the Administer menu and select User Access.
2. In the User Access pane, click Users.
3. On the Users page, click the Add icon.
4. What appears next depends on your security configuration:

To add users in Native authentication mode see Adding Users in Native Authentication Mode.

To add users in LDAP or SSO authentication mode see Adding Users in LDAP or SSO Authentication Mode.

Tips

• For a video tutorial about creating User Accounts, please visit the following knowledge article:

  How To Configure User Access In P6 [Video] [ID 1462852.1]

• Give each user a unique name with up to 30 alpha-numeric characters.
• Oracle recommends using strong passwords. Strong passwords in P6 EPPM contain between 8 and 20 characters and at least one numeric and one alpha character. To further strengthen the password, use a mixture of upper and lower case letters.
• For security reasons, Oracle strongly recommends that you replace the default Admin Superuser (admin) immediately after a manual database installation or an upgrade from P6 version 7.0 and earlier.