Basic User Management

In this section:

Manually Adding Users

New users are added to the PST Basic Access group by default. Members of this group can log into DTP, but they cannot view data or use any other DTP functionality. You can add new users to projects (see Adding Teams to Projects) or configure their permissions and/or group membership (see Configuring User Permissions and Groups) to enable users to interact with data and/or DTP functionality.  

1. Open the User Administration screen, then go to Users and click Add User.

2. Enter the new user’s information (username and password are required) when prompted. Note that there are character limits for the following fields:

   • Username: 36 characters
   • First Name: 49 characters
   • Last Name: 81 characters

   • Email: 256 characters

     About Password Characters

     User credentials enable Parasoft code analysis and testing tools (that is, C/C++test, dotTEST, Jtest, and SOAtest) to connect to DTP. These tools can run in an IDE or on the command line. If run from the command line, characters are limited to alphanumeric characters and hyphens for passwords. Refer to your Parasoft tool's documentation for additional information.

     

3. Click Create to add the user to the database.

Case Sensitivity

By default, usernames are case sensitive (for example, "JohnSmith", "johnSmith", and "johnsmith" are all different users). You can change user login case sensitivity by setting the <case-sensitive> property in the PSTRootConfig.xml configuration file to false and restarting DTP. The file is located in the <DTP_DATA>/conf/ directory.

<root-config>/<case-sensitive>false</case-sensitive>

This setting affects all functionality related to usernames.

Configuring User Permissions and Group Membership

After adding users to the database, you can configure their permissions and group membership (see Configuring User Permissions and Groups).

Importing Users

You can configure DTP to connect to your LDAP server so that you can easily import users from your directories. See Configuring LDAP for details. 

Deleting Users from the Database

1. Open the User Administration screen, then go to Users and click the delete icon next to the user you want to delete.
2. Click Confirm when prompted to finish deleting the user.

Editing a User

1. Open the User Administration screen, then go to Users and click on the user you want to edit.
   
2. User permissions and groups can be modified on this screen. See Configuring User Permissions and Groups for more information.
3. Click Edit Profile to change the user's profile name and email. 
   
4. Click Change Password to change the user's password.
   

Editing Your User Profile

You can easily edit your own user profile, including changing your password.

1. Click your username in the upper-right of the screen and select User Profile.
   
2. Click User Profile to review your profile information.
   
3. Click Edit Profile to change your profile name and email.
   
4. Click Change Password to change your password.