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Security Administration User Settings
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FIGURE 4-6 Setting User Profile
The Security Administration tool has the provision to display the current status of the users using separate icons for different
user status as shown in the left-side tree under the Users node. The various user status reflected in the User Interface (UI)
are shown in the following table.
Click Setting Profile, which will invoke the User Profile Wizard where you can set the user account expiry in days by clicking
the corresponding check box. After the account expiry period, the status of the user is disabled and the user will not be
allowed to log in on the network. Similarly, the user password expiry can be set in number of days, after which the user is
prompted to enter a new password. Finally, you can change the session inactivity timer. You can also set the user status as
either enable or disable by clicking the respective option. Refer to the following figure.
TABLE 4-2 Icons for User Status
Icon Description
User Account is enabled
User is disabled and he cannot login any more until he or she is enabled by the administrator
User account has expired since the specified
User Password has been expired since the specified time and he or she has to change his password or reuse
it
User account has been forced out from logging in to the server similar to the disable status of a user
User's login has been denied due to continuous unsuccessful login attempts