Overview

This page describes how to configure the ID card self-assignment. ID card self assignment can be used when a user has a card that has not been assigned to him yet and the number of this card is not available in a central database/directory server. There are several options how the user can assign a card to himself, see below:

Method 1. Self-assignment using Card Activation Code

The user can assign a card to himself by swiping an unknown card and entering a Card Activation Code on a YSoft SafeQ Terminal.

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Log in to the YSoft SafeQ Web Interface with sufficient rights to administer printers (for example, "admin")

Go to System > System settings and set puk-enabled configuration option to enabled.

NOTE: The users will be able to self-assign any card that is readable by a card reader attached to the terminals.

There are three options how to generate Card Activation Code:

Administrator manually generates a Card Activation Code for an individual user

2a	Administator navigates to Users > Users list > Edit user > Basic tab and clicks on the Generate Card Activation Code button. When confirmation window will be displayed, click Yes.

User automatically receives a Card Activation Code via e-mail

2b	Card Activation Code will be automatically generated and delivered by e-mail when user sends first print job to YSoft SafeQ server

User generates a Card Activation Code himself via the web interface

2c	User logs into YSoft SafeQ Web Interface, displays the Dashboard and clicks on Generate Card Activation Code button. When confirmation window will be displayed, click Yes.

There are two possibilities how the generated Card Activation Codes from options 2a and 2c can be delivered to the user:

3a

The user receives the generated Card Activation Code via e-mail ( if it is correctly defined in YSoft SafeQ database and sending of Card Activation Code by e-mail is set ).

3b

The user can see his Card Activation Code on YSoft SafeQ Web Interface Dashboard after logging in.

NOTE: puk-display-on-web must be set to enabled. For more information see Related properties below.

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Method 2. Self-assignment using Username and Password

The user can assign a card to himself by swiping an unknown card and entering his username and password on a YSoft SafeQ Terminal.

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Log in to the SafeQ Web Interface with sufficient rights to administer printers (for example, "admin")

Go to System > System settings and set assign-new-card-enabled configuration option to enabled.

NOTE: The users will be able to self-assign any card that is readable by a card reader attached to the terminals.

Related configuration options

puk-display-on-web - When enabled, the users can see their current Card Activation Code on the dashboard of the SafeQ web interface.
remove-puk-after-use - When enabled, each Card Activation Code is removed from database after use. Enabling this setting is recommended since it decreases the security risk that Card Activation Code will be misused by another user.
puk-length - Length (number of digits) of generated Card Activation Codes. For security reasons, this value should allow to generate at least 100 times more Card Activation Codes that there`s users in system. Minimal length is defined to 6.
assign-new-card-single - When enabled, users cannot assign a card to themselves if they already have a card assigned.