Login administration

To administrate the logins on the database server, their permissions and roles respectively as well as access to projects choose Administration - Database - Logins ... from the menu. A window will open as shown below.

 

Statistics

To see the activity of a login click on the button. A window will open as shown below listing all databases and tables together with the timespan (From - To) and the number of data sets where any activity of the current login has been found.

To see the current activity on the server click on the button. A window as shown below will open listing all user related processes on the server.

 

Creation of login

To create a new login click on the button. A window will open as shown below.

Here you can enter the name of the new login, the password and the information about the user which will be stored in a DiversityAgents database. You may either create a new entry in this database or select an existing one: Click on the button to search for a name in the database (see below).

 

Copy a login

To copy a login including all permissions etc. into a new login, select the original login in the list and click on the button.

 

Edit a login

To edit the access for a login on the server select the login in the list. If a login should be disabled , uncheck the enabled checkbox (see below).

All databases on the server will be listed with the current database showing a yellow background. The databases where the login has no access will be listed in gray while the databases accessible for a login are black.

 

Access of a login to a database

To allow the access to a database select the database from the list and choose database as shown below.

 

Roles of a login in a database

Use the > and < buttons to add or remove roles for the login in the database (see below).

 

Projects for a login in a database

Depending on the database you can edit the list of projects accessible for a login (see below).

There are 4 states of accessibility for projects

  •     Full access: The user can edit the data
  •      Read only access: The user can only read the data
  •      Locked: The project is locked. Nobody can change the data
  •     No access: The user has no access via a project

Projects are related to the module DiversityProjects. To get additional information about a project select it in the the list and click on the button. 

To load additional projects click on the Load projects button. A window will open as shown below. Projects already in the database will be listed in green, missing projects in red (see below). Check all projects you need in your database and click the Start download button.

 

 

Overview for a login

If you see an overview of all permissions and project for a login, click on the button. A window a shown below will open. It lists all modules and their databases, the roles, accessible projects and read only projects for a login. 

To copy the permissions and projects of the current login to another login, select the login where the settings should be copied to from the list at the base of the window and click on the button to copy the settings for all databases or the button to copy the settings of the selected database into this login. 

 

Overview for a database

If you see an overview of all user and roles in a database, click on the button. A window a shown below will open. It lists all user and roles in the database. 

To remove a user, select it in the list and click on the button. 

 

 

Correction of logins

If you select one of the databases, at the base a button may appear. This indicates, that there are windows logins listed where the name of the login does not match the logins of the server. This may happen if e.g. a database was moved from one server to another. To correct this, click on the button. A list of deviating logins will be shown, that can be corrected automatically.

If logins with the same name but different server are found, one of them has to be deleted to make the correction possible. You will get a list where you can select those that should be removed.

Select the duplicate logins that should be removed and click OK.