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Requiring Electronic Signatures

You can specify that individual actions require an electronic signature before access is granted to the user. The requested electronic signature is a request for users to resubmit their login credentials, similar to the credentials that are requested when users first log in to Windows at the beginning of the day. When users perform actions that require an electronic signature, a dialog is displayed that prompts users for their Windows credentials.

Electronic signatures require that a user's name and password be entered regardless of whether the user was already granted the appropriate permissions to perform the action. They add another level of security to your application. For example, suppose that a user walks away from the workstation without locking it, and then another user who has lower-level security permissions tries to perform security-sensitive actions. When you enable electronic signatures, that user is asked to submit login credentials before being allowed to proceed.

ClosedTo enable electronic signatures

  1. In the left navigation pane of Administration Console, click Security.

  2. Under Security, click Electronic Signatures to open the Electronic Signatures page.

  3. Click to select the check box next to each action for which you want to require an electronic signature.

    To enable electronic signatures for all actions, click Check All. To make electronic signatures unavailable for all actions, click Uncheck All.

  4. Click Apply to save your changes. Alternatively, click OK to save your changes and close Administration Console.

For an electronic signature to be associated with a particular user action, you must also make sure that the user or the user's group is granted permission to that action on the User Permissions page.
 

For an electronic signature request to be logged to the system database, you must enable message logging on the System Database page. After you enable electronic signatures for one or more actions and enable message logging, you can audit the list of permission checks that were made via electronic signature within the BarTender Suite by using the Security: Permissions Checks view in History Explorer. For more information about how to enable message logging to the system database, refer to Enabling Message Logging.

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