Creating a user profile

Edit online

A user profile identifies a specific user to the coprocessor.

To create a user profile, complete the following steps:
  1. From the Access Control menu, click Profiles. A list of currently defined profiles is displayed.
  2. Select New to display the Profile Management window. See Figure 1, to view the fields of the Profile Management window.
    Figure 1. Profile Management panel
    Profile Management window
  3. Define the user profile.

    The fields of the user profile follows:

    User ID
    The name given to a user profile of the cryptographic coprocessor.
    Comment
    An optional character string to describe the user profile.
    Activation Date and Expiration Date
    The first and last dates that the user can log on to the user profile.
    Role
    The name of the role that defines the permissions granted to the user profile.
    Passphrase and Confirm Passphrase
    The character string that the user must enter to gain access to the cryptographic node.
    Passphrase Expiration Date
    The expiration date for the passphrase. The utility will set this by default to 90 days from the current date. You can change the expiration date. Every passphrase contains an expiration date, which defines the lifetime of that passphrase. This is different from the expiration date of the profile itself.
  4. Click Save, to save the profile to disk.
  5. Optional: Click Load, to load the profile into the coprocessor.