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Set Up User Security
Change User Passwords
GE administrators can change existing user passwords when needed.

Web HMI Products Documentation

Set Up User Security
- User Account Overview
  Users consist of both operators and GE administrators. In Application Assembler (ThingWorx), a GE administrator creates and maintains user and group accounts for access to Web HMI environments.
- Access the Application Assembler
  Set up security for Web HMI users and groups in the Application Assembler.
- Create User Accounts
  You create user accounts by duplicating the default user templates, GEAdmin and GEUser. All settings are inherited from these default user templates except for the password and group membership.
- Assign Users to a Group
  As a GE administrator, you assign users duplicated from the GEUser or GEAdmin user template to the appropriate group.
- Change User Passwords
  GE administrators can change existing user passwords when needed.
- Define LDAP Settings
  Use the LDAP Directory Services in Application Assembler (ThingWorx) to manually edit Web HMI users to exactly match the user names in Active Directory, and then assign them to groups.
- Configure Active Directory Authentication
  Application Assembler (ThingWorx) provides the ActiveDirectory template for you to duplicate to create a directory service for each one of your AD domain servers.

Change User Passwords

GE administrators can change existing user passwords when needed.

User passwords must be unique, following these guidelines:

Contains a minimum of 8 characters
Contains at least one uppercase letter.
Contains at least one lowercase letter.
Contains at least one special character (such as @, #, $).
Does not match the user ID.
Does not contain the user ID.

In the SECURITY section of the Application Assembler page, select Users.
Select the user whose password you want to change.
In the General Information panel, select Change Password in the Password field.
In the Change Password dialog box, enter a new password twice and select Change Password.
Select Save.