Managing User Properties
The Configuration > Users page lists both users and groups, along with buttons for
administration. Hover over an entry to expose its clone, edit, and destroy buttons.
Double-click a user or role, or click its edit icon 
, to view its edit screen. The icons are as follows:
Table 40 Users BUI Page Icons
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Add a new user or role. A new dialog box is displayed where you
enter the required properties.
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Open a search box. Enter a search string and hit enter to search
the user or role lists for that text, and only display entries that
match. Click the icon again to return to the full listing.
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Clone a user or role. Add a new user or role starting with fields
based on the values from this entry.
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Edit a user or role.
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Remove a user, role, or authorization.
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Depending on the type of user, all of the following properties can be set when adding
a user, and a subset of these when editing a user:
Table 41 User Properties
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Type
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Username
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Unique name for user
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User ID
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Enabled only for Local, Data, and No-login users. You can either
choose to have an automatically assigned user ID or specify a user
ID on your own. The self-assigned ID is not allowed to be less than
100, or be greater than 2147483646, or equal to 60001, 60002, or
65534.
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Full Name
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User description
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Password/Confirm
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For Local and Data users, type the initial password in both of
these fields
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Require session annotation
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If enabled, when users log in to the appliance they must provide a
text description of the purpose of their login. This annotation may
be used to track work performed for requests in a ticketing system,
and the ticket ID can be used as the session annotation. The session
annotation appears in the log.
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Kiosk user
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If enabled, the user will only be able to view the screen in the
"Kiosk screen" setting. This can be used to restrict a user to only
see the dashboard, for example. A kiosk user will not be able to
access the appliance via the CLI.
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Kiosk screen
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The screen that this kiosk user is restricted to, if "Kiosk user"
is enabled
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Roles
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The roles assigned to a Directory or Local user
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Exceptions
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These authorizations are included or excluded from those normally
available for the selected roles. For example, an exception can be
added to exclude all or some scope authorizations for a role
assigned to a user, or to include scope authorizations for a user
without that scope defined in a role.
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The following properties can be set when managing roles:
Table 42 Role Properties
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Name
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Name of the role as it will be shown in lists
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Description
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Verbose description of role if desired
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Exceptions
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Exceptions for this role
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Related Topics
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Adding an Administrator or User BUI, CLI
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Changing a User Password BUI, CLI
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Editing Exceptions for a User BUI, CLI
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Deleting Exceptions for a User BUI, CLI
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Adding a Role BUI, CLI
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Editing Authorizations for a Role BUI, CLI
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Deleting Authorizations from a Role BUI, CLI
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Adding a User Who can Only View the Dashboard BUI
