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Editing your user account details

This option is only included on the Options page if you're using ANY-maze user accounts (rather than Windows accounts) and you're NOT an ANY-maze administrator. If you are an ANY-maze administrator, you can change your own user name and password on the ANY-maze user management page.

Overview

Although your ANY-maze user name and password will initially be given to you by the ANY-maze administrator, you can use the My account settings on the Options page to change them at any time. Indeed, it's a good idea to change your password at regular intervals - perhaps once a month.

You can also use this page to choose whether ANY-maze should, by default, protect your experiment and protocol files using your password so other people can't open them.

Accessing your account settings

To access your account settings, select the Options page and then click the My account option in the left-hand side bar. If this option doesn't appear on the Options page, it's because your administrator has configured ANY-maze to use Windows user accounts.

Figure 1. The My account settings on the ANY-maze Options page.

Changing your user name

You can change your user name by simply editing the name shown. You can enter anything you like up to a maximum of 24 characters. The only limitation is that you can't use a name already taken by another user - ANY-maze will tell you if this is the case.

Changing your password

Depending on how the ANY-maze administrator has set up the system, you may not need to enter a password at all. However, doing so is a good idea as it protects your ANY-maze settings. You can enter anything you like, but it must be between 5 and 15 characters long and different to your user name. Note that any spaces you enter at the start or end of your password are ignored, so entering '  dog' for example would not be accepted (because the two spaces at the start of the password would be ignored and the password would be seen to have just 3 characters). Spaces inside the password, such as 'my dog', will be counted as characters.

Protecting your files by default

When you save an Experiment file or Protocol file in ANY-maze, you can optionally provide a password that will be used to 'lock' the file so that other people can't open it - this facility is explained more fully in the Saving experiments and Saving protocols topics.

If you expect that you will generally use this facility, then by checking the box labelled Protect my files by default..., you can set ANY-maze to automatically use your user password to protect any experiment or protocol files that you save. Of course, as this is only a default, you will still be able to change an individual file to have a different password (or no password at all).

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