User Accounts and Logging in to Codebeamer
Creating User Accounts
To log in to Codebeamer users must first create an account by clicking.Not a Member yet? Register now! link on the Codebeamer homepage.
Clicking Not a Member Yet? Register Now! link opens the New Account window where you can provide all details.
Personal details marked with an asterisk (*) are required.
• User Name—Specify your user name to be used in Codebeamer.
• Password—Enter the password, and then reenter it in the Confirm Password field.
• First Name and Last Name—Enter your full name to be displayed throughout Codebeamer (for example, on Work Items, in User Groups, and so on).
• Email—Enter the email address to be used for notifications. It is visible only to the users with appropriate permissions (Member - View).
• Company—Specify the organization name.
• Time zone—Specify the time zone by selecting from the drop-down list.
• Date Format—Specify the format for dates by selecting from the drop-down list.
Once all required details are entered, click Save to create the new user account.
Login in to Codebeamer
Once the account is created, log in to Codebeamer by entering your user name and password provided during the registration, and then click Login. To use Codebeamer with a different account, first log out from the current session and then log in with another user name.
After a successful login, you are taken to the My Wiki page on the My Start tab.
Locking out Users Accounts
As a security feature, to prevent brute-force or dictionary attacks on passwords, Codebeamer restricts login attempts by locking the user accounts as follows:
• 5th failed attempt—Locking the account for 1 minute.
• 6th failed attempt—Locking the account for 5 minutes.
• 7th failed attempt—Locking the account for 15 minutes.
• 8th failed attempt—Locking the account for 60 minutes (at this point, the IP address of the attacker is logged).
After 60 minutes, the counter of unsuccessful login attempts is reset. System Administrators can unlock user accounts in the > menu, by selecting the given user account and clicking the Unlock user button.
 | This feature is only relevant when using native Codebeamer authentication protocol. For SSO or LDAP, the lockout feature is not recommended for the login protocols. |
SSL Login
SSL login performs the login to the server using an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate. All communications between your browser and the server are encrypted for a secure transmission.
To allow only secure connections, contact your System Administrator.
Codebeamer is shipped with a self-signed, not-trusted certificate. To obtain a trusted certificate, contact your provider.
The SSL connection is sometimes slower than the simple non-encrypted connection due to the added security layer in establishing the connection.
Restricting the User Authentication
Starting with Codebeamer 22.04, the user authentication can be restricted in a clustered environment.
When a cluster node is dedicated as an API server , users are not allowed to log in to that dedicated node, and Codebeamer displays the following error message:
 | Login to API server is denied. |
| | Users with administrator or API roles are allowed to log in to the dedicated nodes. |