Managing Your Own User Account Settings
There are shortcuts for viewing and editing your own user account compared to managing other users.
These settings are available for any user in the CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service, regardless of permission level. To view and manage settings for other user accounts, you must be part of the User Admins group.
View Your User Details
Log into CipherTrust WebUI.
Click on your full name in the upper right corner.
Click User Settings.
The My User Settings page is displayed.
View the following values:
Full Name - A friendly name to display. This value is different than the username you provide to login.
Email - Your email address
Source - Can be local, or Data Protection on Demand:
. Created - Creation date and time.
Updated - Date and time when your settings were last updated.
ID - The UUID associated with your account. This value is helpful for operations to update your account in the REST API. If your account is a single sign on Data Protection on Demand (DPoD) account,
Data Protection on Demand: <CDSPaaS_service_name> |precedes the ID.Last Login - Date and time when you last logged in.
Last Failed Login - The last date and time when someone tried unsuccessfully to login with your user name.
Logins - Total number of logins.
Failed Logins - Total failed number of logins.
Expires At - The date and time the user account will expire and you will no longer have access to CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service.
Note
This value is only visible if the user administrator configured your account with an expiration date. If the Expires At detail doesn't have a value, your account will never expire.
Update Your Full Name
Log into CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service CipherTrust WebUI.
Click on your full name in the upper right corner.
Click User Settings.
The My User Settings page is displayed.
In the UPDATE NAME section, type a new value in the Full Name field.
Note
This value is different than the username you provide to login.
Click Update under the Full Name field to apply the change.
Update Your Email Address
Note
This operation is not applicable to single sign on DPoD accounts. Changing the email address value here does not propagate to the DPoD account information.
Log into CipherTrust WebUI.
Click on your full name in the upper right corner.
Click User Settings.
The My User Settings page is displayed.
In the UPDATE EMAIL section, type a new value in the Email field.
Click Update under the Email field to apply the change.
Change Your Password
Note
This operation is not applicable to user accounts from Data Protection on Demand origin.
Log into CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service web console GUI.
Click on your full name in the upper right corner.
Click User Settings.
The My User Settings page is displayed.
Under the CHANGE PASSWORD section, provide the Current Password, a new value for the Password and confirm the new password with the Password Match field.
The new password must adhere to policy rules defining allowed password length and characters. The rules are that passwords must be between 8 and 30 characters, and must have at least one uppercase, one lowercase, and one special character. Special characters include any character supported by your keyboard besides letters and digits.
Click the Change Password button to apply the change.
You are immediately logged out, and must log in again with the new password.
