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Logging in to a project without using the password manager functions

Requirement: A project is open. You wish to log in as a defined user for this project or for a library integrated in it in order to edit one or the other with certain rights. You have the required login data for the respective project or the library.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logon”.

    The dialog box “Logon” opens.

  2. Select the project file from “Project/Library” and enter the required access data “User name” and “Password”.

  3. Log in with “OK”.

    If another user is already logged in, this user will automatically be logged out by the new login.

Setting a master password for the password manager

Requirement: A project is open. The dialog box “Login” is open for you to log in as a defined user for a project or for a library integrated in the project. You wish to use the password manager in order to save login data in it.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logon”.

  2. In the dialog box “Logon”, click on the button _cds_icon_password_manager.

    If you are working for the first time with the password manager, the dialog box “Password Manager Configuration” opens.

  3. Enter a character string as the future master password. Confirm it in the second line and click on “OK”.

    CODESYS notes the master password until you terminate the current CODESYS session. You must always input this password when you wish to log in to the password manager for the first time during a new session, or after you have changed it.

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If you have forgotten your master password, you no longer have any possibility to access the login data already saved! In this case you can only reset the password manager. After that you must start again to save passwords in the manager!

Saving login data in the password manager

Requirement: A project is open. You wish to log in as a defined user for this project or for a library integrated in it in order to edit one or the other with certain rights. You have the required login data for the respective project or the library. These login data have not yet been saved in the password manager.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logon”, in order to open the “Logon” dialog box.

  2. Select the project file from “Project/Library”.

  3. Enter the user name and password for the project or the library.

  4. Click on the button _cds_icon_password_manager.

    If you are working for the first time with the password manager, you will be requested to define a master password. Refer to the above guide 'Setting a master password for the password manager' for this.

    When you call the password manager for the first time in this CODESYS session, you will be requested to enter the master password.

  5. Enter the master password when requested to do so.

    The password manager menu appears.

  6. Select the option “Save the credentials locally on this computer”.

    The login takes place. The data are saved in the password manager.

Getting the login data from the password manager

Requirement: A project is open. You wish to log in as a defined user for this project or for a library integrated in it in order to edit one or the other with certain rights. The login data required for this are already saved in the password manager.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logon” in order to open the “Logon” dialog box.

  2. Click on the button _cds_icon_password_manager.

    If you are working for the first time with the password manager, you will be requested to define a master password. Refer to the above guide 'Setting a master password for the password manager' for this.

    When you call the password manager for the first time in this CODESYS session, you will be requested to enter the master password.

  3. Enter the master password when requested to do so.

    The password manager menu appears.

  4. Select the appropriate entry “Use the stored credentials for <user name>”.

  5. The login takes place automatically with the data read from the password manager.

Opening the password manager, changing the master password

Requirement: A project is open. You wish to open the password manager in order to view and/or edit the entries or to change the master password. You have already logged in once with the master password.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logon”, in order to open the “Logon” dialog box.

  2. Click on the button _cds_icon_password_manager.

    Select “Open the Password Manager”.

    The password manager window opens.

  3. Click on “Change Master Password” and make the change.

Logging out from the project

Requirement: A project is open. A user is logged in, which is recognizable by a name entry in the field “Current User” in the status bar.

  1. Select “Project  User Management  User Logoff”. Alternatively, double-click on the field “Current User” in the status bar.

    If the user is logged in to only one project, he will now be logged out without further interaction. “(nobody)” appears again in the field “Current User” in the status bar

    If the user is logged in to several projects, the dialog box “Logoff” opens. There, select the specific project or library project from which the user is to be logged out.