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With the help of the integrated user management, user groups with different access rights and authorizations can be defined. Configuration and handling of the user management in Automation Builder and a PLC is decribed in an ‎⮫ application note.

This is relevant for a user management for a CODESYS project file. Visualizations and devices can have their own user management.

For more information, see: ⮫ “Handling of Device User Management ”

The following guide describes how you can adapt the user management for the first time in a project. It deals with the definition of a user and a group to which he belongs.

Requirement: The project for which the user management should be set up is open. There is no adapted user configuration yet.

  1. Click “Project Settings  Users and Groups” and then the “Users” tab. The user ‎Owner‎ is already created by default.

  2. Click “Add”.

    The “Add User” dialog opens.

  3. Specify a login name (example: "Dev1") and a password. Leave the option “Activated” activated. Click “OK”.

    When you create a group for the first time, CODESYS now asks you to authenticate yourself to perform this action.

    In this case, specify "Owner" as the “Current user”. Do not enter a “password”, just click “OK”.

    The ‎Dev1‎ user is displayed in the list and is automatically a ‎Member of the group 'Everyone'‎.

  4. Change to the tab “Groups”, in order to add the user to a new group.

    The groups ‎Everyone‎ and ‎Owner‎ have already been created.

  5. Click “Add” to open the “Add Group” dialog.

  6. Specify at least one name for the new group (example: "Developers"). Select the check box next to the “User "Dev1"” entry in the “Members” field. Click “OK”.

    The group “Developers” now appears with ‎has user member 'Dev1'‎.

  7. Click the “Users” tab.

    The “Dev1” user now is now displayed as a member of the "Everyone" and "Developers" groups.

With the “Export/Import” functionality in the “Project Settings” dialog in the “Users and Groups” category, you can apply the user management from another project.

For more information, see: ⮫ “Protecting and Saving Projects ”, ⮫ “General information about write and access protection ”, ⮫ “Encryption with certificates ”, ⮫ “User management and password manager ”, ⮫ “Permission management ”, ⮫ “Filing, saving ”