Assigning rights and password to operators for authorization in Axxon PSIM

User accounts are stored separately from operator accounts in Axxon PSIM. Some user rights can be assigned to several operators, and at the same time, several user rights can be assigned to one operator.

To assign rights and a password to the operator for authorization in Axxon PSIM, do the following:

1. Go to the Users tab in the System settings window (1).
2. In the objects tree located under the User rights button (2), select the object of the same name corresponding to the rights account that must be assigned to the operator.
3. In the Department objects tree (3), open the context menu by right-clicking the selected user.
   
4. Select the Add to rights "User rights" command in the menu (4).
   
   As a result, the Authorization tab is displayed from the right side.
   In the Login field (1), the login that is assigned to the operator is displayed.
5. To change the authorization parameters, do the following:
   1. Click the Authorization parameters button (2).
      As a result, the Login and password window opens.
      
   2. In the New login field, specify the login that is assigned to the operator for identification in Axxon PSIM.
   3. In the New password field, specify the password that is assigned to the operator for authorization in Axxon PSIM.
   4. In the Confirmation field, repeat the operator password.
   5. Click OK.
      

      Note

      Without a password, access rights aren't assigned to the operator.

6. Configure the rules of password change by the user:
   
   1. Set the Change password on first access checkbox (5) to ask the user to change the password on their first login to the system.
   2. Set the Change password every __ months checkbox (6) to ask the user to change the password periodically. After you set the checkbox, the field becomes editable. Enter the request period of password change in months.
   3. Set the Allow password change by user checkbox (7) if you want to allow the user to change its password at any system startup.
      

      Note

      The event of changing the password by the user is displayed in the event viewer.

      Note

      When you change the user login and/or password, the system breaks all external connections that the old connections used to connect to.

7. If you want to confirm the user login to the system by another user, select it from the Supervisor drop-down list (8).

   Note

   The user-supervisor must be added to rights.

   Attention!

   If the system uses the authorization type by the four-eyes rule (that is, with the supervisor confirmation), all system users, including supervisors, must log in to the system by login and password instead of the Windows user account (see steps 4-6).

8. If you want to use the Windows OS account for the user authorization in Axxon PSIM, set the Windows authorization checkbox (3) and select the name of the user account from the User list (4).
   

   Note

   When you select this way of authorization, you mustn't enter any data in the login and password query panel when starting or shutting down Axxon PSIM. To start Axxon PSIM when a password is requested, click the Registration button. To shut down Axxon PSIM, click the Shutdown button.

9. Click the Apply button (9).
   The object of the same name as the user account registered for the operator is displayed in the child branch of the User rights object.
   
10. If the operator wants to assign additional rights, repeat steps 1–9.
    

    Note

    Operator authorization parameters remain the same when you assign them the subsequent rights. If you change them in some rights, they are automatically changed in others.

Assigning rights and a password to the operator for authorization in Axxon PSIM is complete.