Administrator Access

As an administrator, you must customize your own user definition. PeopleSoft delivers at least one full-access user ID with each delivered database. Your first task should be to sign in with this ID and personalize it for your needs or to create a new, full-access ID.

Note:

PeopleSoft-delivered IDs are documented in your installation manual.

When you install PeopleSoft, you are prompted for an RDBMS system administrator ID and password. This information is used to automatically create a default access profile. If you will be using more than one access profile, set up the others before creating any new PeopleSoft security definitions. Most sites only use one access profile.

The number of database-level IDs you create is up to your site requirements. However, in most cases, having fewer database-level IDs reduces maintenance issues.

For example, if you implement pure LDAP authentication, at a minimum you need two database-level IDs—your access ID and your connect ID. With this scenario, in PeopleSoft you need to maintain only a symbolic ID to reference the access ID and maintain a user ID that the application server uses during sign in. With this minimal approach, each user who needs a two-tier connection, to run an upgrade, for example, could use the same user ID that the application server uses.