Users

A user is a person who logs into the system to perform application-related operations. Before this user can access any operations, they must be added to a user group. Each user group has a defined set of privileges. The operations that a user can do depends on the privileges of the user group to which the user belongs.

The following guidelines are used for user names:

• Use a minimum of 3 characters and maximum of 50 characters.
• The name must start with an alphabetical character.
• The use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores are allowed.
• The name is case insensitive.
• The name cannot be the same as an existing group name.

The following guidelines are used for user passwords:

• The password must be at least 8 characters long.
• Use at least one numeric character from 0 to 9 in the password.
• Use at least one alphabetic character from the English language alphabet in the password.
• Special characters include {, |, }, ~, [, \, ], ^, _, ‘, :, ;, <, =, >, ?, !, “, #, $, %, &, `, (, ), *, +, ,, -, ., and /
• You can configure when passwords expire or if they expire.