Database Security – Desktop Client

Database Security Settings

The database’s security policy can be adjusted to change the following settings:

1. Lock Inactive Users After – Sets the number of days before an inactive account (no login activity) is locked.
2. Password Expires After – Set the amount of time that Progeny will prompt the user to create a new password.
3. Archive the previous ___ Passwords – Define the number of passwords that have to be different before the same password can be used again.
4. Minimum password length – Set the minimum length of Progeny user passwords.

To access these options, from the main Progeny screen right-click the database root (or in a blank area of the left pane below the folders)

Click the Edit Database Security menu option.

To set Database Folder Security

1. On the navigation bar, click the Pedigrees or Individuals module button to open the window.
2. In the module, right-click on the folder for which you are setting the security, and on the context menu that opens, click Edit Folder.
3. The Modify Folder Settings dialog box opens. The name of the selected folder is displayed in the Folder Name field.
4. Do one or more of the following:
   • Modify the security settings for different classes of users listed under the Class Name column (All Users class exists by default) by checking or unchecking the boxes under each permission. The permissions are defined below:
     • Read Folder?—Open and view the contents of the folder.
     • Add Ped?—Add pedigrees to the folder.
     • Del Ped?—Delete pedigrees from the folder.
     • Modify Ped?—Modify pedigrees in the folder.
   • Click Add Class to open the New User Class dialog box to create a new user class, and then set the folder security for the new class being added.
     
   • If you have assigned pedigree-level security to one more pedigree in the folder, and you want to override the security settings for these pedigrees based on the security settings at the folder level, select the Override Pedigree Level Security checkbox, and then set the appropriate pedigree-level security for the different classes of users.
     • Ped Read? – View the data in the pedigree.
     • Ped Write? – Write data to the pedigree.
5. Click Save once security settings have been assigned in the Modify Folder Settings A message opens indicating the settings for the folder were successfully changed. Click OK to close the message and return to the Pedigrees window.

To Set Pedigree Level Security

1. On the navigation bar, click the Pedigrees button to open the Pedigrees
2. On the Pedigrees window toolbar, right-click on the pedigree for which you are setting the security, and on the context menu that opens, click Edit Pedigree Security.
   
3. Do one or more of the following:
   • Modify the security settings for All Users or for the different classes of users.
     • Read?—Open and view the contents of the pedigree.
     • Write?—Modify the contents in the pedigree.
   • Add Class to open the New User Class dialog box to create a new user class, and then set the folder security for the new class being added.