Creating a User Account

NOTE: In order to meet stringent security configurations required by Common Criteria Certification, Sentinel requires a strong password with the following characteristics:

1. Choose passwords of at least 8 with characters in length that includes at least one UPPER CASE, one lower case, one special symbol (!@#$%^&*()_+), and one numeric (0-9).

2. Your password may not contain your e-mail name or any part of your full name.

3. Your password should not be a "common" word (for example, it should not be a word in the dictionary or slang in common use).

4. Your password should not contain words from any language, because numerous password-cracking programs exist that can run through millions of possible word combinations in seconds.

5. You should choose a password you can remember and yet is complex. For example, Msi5!YOld (My Son is 5 years old) OR IhliCf5#yN (I have lived in California for 5 years now).

To use this feature, you must have the user permission User Management. User permissions are fairly detailed. For more information, refer to Sentinel Database Users, Roles and Access Permissions of Reference Guide.

NOTE: The Sentinel Database Administrator, Sentinel Administrator, Sentinel Application User, and Sentinel Report User are created during installation. For more information about these users, refer to Sentinel User Accounts in Reference Guide.

To create a user account:

  1. Open the User Manager window.

  2. Click Add a new User,

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or high-light any user, right-click > Add User.

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  1. Under Authorization, enter:

NOTE: After assigning a security filter to a user, you cannot delete that filter.

NOTE: It is strongly encouraged as a best practice a minimum password length of 8 characters that includes alphanumerics.

(Optional) Under Details, enter:

  1. Click the Permissions tab and assign user permissions.

  2. Click the Roles tab and select the role for the user.

  3. Click OK.

Note: Oracle does not allow the creation of users named the same as one of the Oracle Reserved words. Also, Sentinel does not allow you to use these names.