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Defining, Editing, and Deleting a User


When is installed, two user profiles are automatically created: Admin and Guest. The administrator logs in to the using the Admin user profile, and subsequently creates user profiles for each user that will log in to .

To create a user profile:

  1. Click the Create button.
  2. In the General Properties tab, provide a short user name (required), a full name, and a user description to help identify the user. Allowable characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore, or special characters (for example, accented characters) when running in a language other than English. The display of the name is case sensitive but the actual username that is authenticated is case insensitive. The names Public, Private, and Properties are reserved and cannot be used for an object name.
  3. Enter the user's email address.
  4. Enter the user's password.
  5. Re-enter the password to confirm it.
  6. Specify whether the user will be allowed to edit his or her own profile. When users are given permission to edit their profile, they will be able to access the Profile Page by clicking the My Profile link from any IBM Alphablox page. This allows them to modify their description, password, email address, and manage the installation of their Java classes.

    At this time, you can define the group and role memberships for this user.



  7. Click the Application Properties tab.
  8. Use the Properties for Application drop list to select the application for which the membership properties will apply. Choose Default to define the user's membership properties for all applications.
  9. Click the Memberships tab. The Membership tab enables you to add the user to an existing group and/or roles.
  10. Specify the Group(s) and role(s) to which the user belongs:
  11. Use the Application Properties tab to select another application if you are defining group and role memberships based on applications.
  12. Click the Save button to create the user profile. The new user profile is created immediately.

To edit a user profile:

  1. Select the user name from the Users list box.
  2. Click the Edit button.
  3. Make the desired changes.
  4. Click the Save button on the General Properties and Application Properties tabs to save any changes made to the fields in these tabs. Changes to the Memberships tab are saved automatically.

Note: When users are given permission to edit their profile, they will be able to access the Profile Page by clicking the My Profile link from any page. This allows them to modify their description, password, email address, and manage the installation of their Java classes. They will not be able to change their user name using the Profile page.

To delete a user profile:

  1. Select the user name from the Users list box.
  2. Click the Delete button. The user profile is deleted immediately and cannot be recovered.

Note: Any sessions that a user has open are immediately terminated when the user is deleted from the server.


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