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Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
Administering Rational® ClearQuest®
Learn how to administer the Rational® ClearQuest®.
Managing user accounts
Use the User Administration tool to set up and administer users and user groups. Rational® ClearQuest® stores information about users and user groups in the user database and schema repository.
Working with users
Editing user profiles
Edit the user profile to change information about a Rational® ClearQuest® user.

IBM ClearQuest 10.0.9
Overview
Learn general information about the product.
Installing
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Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade and migrate data for the product.
Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest®
  Learn how to administer the Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Reconfiguring ClearQuest® to use a different JRE
    When you change the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Rational® ClearQuest®, you must reconfigure the product to make it work with the new JRE.
  - Managing databases
    Describes the different types of databases that the administrator can create and manage
  - Managing user accounts
    Use the User Administration tool to set up and administer users and user groups. Rational® ClearQuest® stores information about users and user groups in the user database and schema repository.
    - Viewing database subscriptions
      You can determine which users and user groups have been granted access to a specific database.
    - User privileges
    - Working with users
      - Adding a user
        You can add users to the Rational® ClearQuest® environment.
      - Assigning user access privileges
        Assign access privileges when you create user accounts.
      - Adding or modifying user access privileges
        You can add or modify user privileges.
      - Specifying user authentication
      - Subscribing users and groups to databases
        This topic describes how to subscribe users and user groups to a database.
      - Unsubscribing users and groups from databases
        You can deny a user or user group access to a database by removing their subscription to that database. This involves both removing their individual user subscription and removing the user from all groups that are subscribed to the database.
      - Upgrading user databases
        After you check in a schema, you can upgrade the user databases to use the newer schema version. The changes to the schema are available only after you upgrade the user databases.
      - Editing user profiles
        Edit the user profile to change information about a Rational® ClearQuest® user.
      - Editing a user profile from the Rational® ClearQuest® client
        Active users can change their names, email addresses, passwords, and telephone numbers. They cannot change their user login or privileges.
      - Remember-the-password feature and FIPS 140-2 approved encryption
        This topic discusses the remember-the-password feature of the Rational® ClearQuest® Client and how to ensure that your deployment is using FIPS 140-2 compliant data encryption.
      - Disabling and re-enabling the remember-password feature for a database set
        Use the installutil setmasterproperty subcommand to disable and re-enable the remember-password feature for a database set.
      - Protecting deployments from brute-force password attacks
        You can protect deployments from brute-force password attacks by locking out users after a specified number of failed log-in attempts.
      - Making users and groups inactive
        You can make users and user groups inactive.
      - Making users and groups active
        You can make users and user groups active.
    - Working with user groups
    - User access to actions
    - Exporting and importing users and user groups
    - Administering users in a MultiSite environment
  - Configuring query limits on result sets
    You can configure query limits on the size of result sets to improve system performance, availability, and scalability.
  - Using LDAP with Rational® ClearQuest®
    Overview of user authentication methods available with Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Workspace folder permissions overview
    Rational® ClearQuest® uses a role-based access control (RBAC) model for enforcing workspace folder permissions. The workspace folder permissions feature requires that your schema repository and user databases are at feature level 6 or later.
  - Optimistic and pessimistic record locking
    Overview of optimistic and pessimistic locking implementations in Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Configuring ClearQuest® core logging and tracing
    This section describes how to configure logging and tracing for ClearQuest® core.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
  This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
  Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
Reporting
Learn how to generate reports for the product.
Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Integrating
You can integrate Rational® ClearQuest® with other software by adding packages to existing schema.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the product.
Reference
Review reference information for the product.
Tutorials

Editing user profiles

Edit the user profile to change information about a Rational® ClearQuest® user.

Before you begin

You must have user Administrator or Super User privileges to edit a user profile.

Note: If your Rational® ClearQuest® environment uses LDAP authentication, you might not have access to edit the user profile even if you have Administrator or Super User privileges. Contact the Rational® ClearQuest® system administrator for assistance.

Procedure

Start the Designer. Click File > User Administration.
In the User Administration window, click User Action > Edit.
Edit the user profile.