Change a User's Password and Access Rights

How Do I...

To change a user's name, password, and/or access rights, follow these steps:

1. From the Maintain menu, select Users, then Set Up Security. Sage 50 displays the User Security window.
To change a password
1. Highlight the user whose password you want to change. (You must be logged in as the Admin user.)
2. Click the Reset Password button.
3. Enter and confirm the new password. The user will have to create a new password the next time she logs in, but the password you create will give one-time access.
4. You can also choose to email the temporary password to the user.
To change a user's rights
1. Highlight the user whose user record you want to change.
2. Select the Edit User's Rights button.

The User Rights window appears.

3. Change the user's password, if desired.

Note: User passwords are case sensitive and must be unique. Two or more users cannot have the same password.

4. Change the user's security level, if desired; choose Full access, Selected access, or None.
• If you have chosen Full access or None, click OK. The Users window returns. Note that the user password and/or access level information have been changed as desired.
• If you have chosen Selected access, click Next. The Sage 50 Selected Access window appears. It lets you select exactly the areas of the Sage 50 that you want the user to be able to access. Tell me more about Selected Access.

What do you want to do next?

• Log in to a Sage 50 company
• Copy user information to a new user record
• Delete user records
• Remove user and password security
• Perform other administrative tasks
• Read the users and passwords overview
• Read the Sage 50 security overview

Published: March 21, 2017
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