System user names

Rational® DOORS® can use system user names to log in to the Rational DOORS database. Your system user name is the name that you use to log in to your computer, for example your Windows user name.
If system user names are enabled for Rational DOORS login, it is important to enter the system user name of each user in their user account. Rational DOORS uses the system user names that are entered in the user accounts to determine whether there are identical system user names.

All system user names are unique within a single Windows 2003 domain.

Your system user names might not be unique if your users are in two or more Windows 2003 domains or you have both UNIX users and Windows users.

If there is any possibility that your users might not have unique system user names, and you want to enable system user names:

CAUTION:
For security reasons, use passwords along with system user names. If you do not use passwords, the Rational DOORS login screen is not displayed, and the database explorer opens.
Restriction:

Diagram illustrating the use of system user names in Rational DOORS

Judy Brown is using Windows XP Professional. Her system user name is Judy, and this user name is recorded in her Rational DOORS user account. No other Rational DOORS user has the same system user name, so when she starts Rational DOORS, she does not need to type her Rational DOORS user name.

Now you create an account for Judy Smith, who is using Windows 2003, and whose system user name is also Judy. You enter her system user name in her user account.

When either Judy Brown or Judy Smith start Rational DOORS, they must type their Rational DOORS user name on the login screen, because there are now two users with the same system user name.

If you forgot to enter the system user name for Judy Smith in her user account and ignored the warning message, Rational DOORS cannot tell that there are two users with identical system user names. When Judy Smith logs on to her computer and runs Rational DOORS, her system user name is matched with the user account for Judy Brown.


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