Activating user authentication - Software products - Cyber Security Deployment Guideline - PCM600 Protection and Control IED Manager - 2.13 - IEC - ANSI - 28.06.2023

PCM600 Cyber Security Deployment Guideline
The system engineer can enable or disable the user authentication. When the user authentication is disabled, all the users get full rights to operate. The login function also works according to this function. For more information on the login functions, see the getting started guide.
  1. On the menu bar, click Tools and select Options.
  2. Click Security Settings and select the General tab.
  3. Under Authentication, select the appropriate option.
    • Disabled means that user authentication is disabled.
    • PCM authentication uses the user name and password specified on the User Manager page of PCM600 options window. The default password for PCM600 user account is empty.
    • Windows authentication compares the account name of the current Windows user to the Windows account names specified for users in PCM600 User Manager. If Windows authentication is enabled and the current Windows user account has not been linked to any PCM600 user account, the user name and password must be entered to log in to PCM600.
Note: When entering Windows account names in PCM600 User Manager, the account name must contain both a domain and a user name. The account names are entered in the Windows Account field, for example, mydomain\john.

Multiple account names can be specified in the Windows Account field for a single PCM600 user, but they must be separated with semicolon, for example, mydomain\john;anotherdomain\john.

The recommended authentication method is the Windows authentication. This also enables indirect password recovery. Windows user passwords can be recovered on Windows if forgotten.

Note: If the Administrator password has not been set before, it must be set when activating user authentication.