4 Managing Your Account

This chapter describes how to access and manage your Oracle Identity Manager user account and includes the following topics:

• Viewing and Modifying Account Profiles

• Changing Passwords

• Specifying Questions and Answers for Password Change and Retrieval

• Delegating Responsibilities to a Proxy

4.1 Viewing and Modifying Account Profiles

You can modify the basic information associated with your Oracle Identity Manager user account.

Note:

The fields you can edit in your user profile depend on how the system administrator has configured Oracle Identity Manager.

To view and edit your account:

1. Log in to the Administrative and User Console. The Welcome to Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console page is displayed.

2. In the left navigation pane, click My Account, and then click Account Profile. The Account Profile page is displayed with information about your user account.

3. Click Modify Account Profile.

4. Make the desired changes and click Save Profile.

   If approvals are required for these changes, a request ID displayed. Record this ID and use it to track the request. Otherwise, the change takes effect as soon as your request is processed. Depending on the load on your system, this may take several minutes.

   Oracle Identity Manager stores the request for auditing purposes.

4.2 Changing Passwords

Depending on local system settings, you may be required to periodically change your password to maintain system security.

To change your password:

1. In the left navigation pane, click My Account, and then click Change Password. The Change Password page is displayed.

2. Enter your current password in the Old Password field, and then enter your new password in the New Password and Confirm Password fields.

3. Click Save.

If a password policy is attached to the Xellerate User resource object, then the View Password Policy link is displayed in all pages of the Administrative and User Console in which a password field is present. Clicking this link shows the password policy that is applicable for specifying a password.

See Also:

Oracle Identity Manager Design Console Guide for information about password policies

4.3 Specifying Questions and Answers for Password Change and Retrieval

You can select verification questions and the answers to these questions. You configure challenge questions and answers the first time you log in to the Administrative and User Console. These questions are used to verify your identity if you forget your password and want to reset it, or if you want to change your password.

The system administrator determines the number of questions you must answer and the list of potential questions from which you may select. From the available list of challenge questions and answers, you can select the questions for yourself.

To change the challenge questions and answers:

1. In the left navigation pane, click My Account.

2. Click Challenge Q&A. You are prompted to enter your password.

3. Enter the password, and click Continue. The Select Challenge Questions page is displayed.

4. Select the challenge questions, ensuring that you select at least the minimum number of questions, then click Select. The Provide Challenge Answers page is displayed.

5. Enter an answer for each question listed. You should supply answers that you can easily remember.

6. Click Save.

7. Click OK to confirm your answers.

   If you forget your password or want to reset it, then you are required to provide the answers to the questions that you selected in the preceding steps.

4.4 Delegating Responsibilities to a Proxy

You can delegate your task approval responsibilities to another user when you are unavailable, for example, due to illness or vacation. As an approver, you can select another user as a proxy for yourself. After selecting the user, any task that is assigned to you is routed to the delegated proxy user.

Note:

A proxy assignment starts at 00:01 a.m. (one minute past midnight) on the start date and ends at 00:00 (midnight) at the start of the end date.

When the proxy user logs in to the Administrative and User Console, the welcome page displays the user for whom the logged-in user is a proxy. Tasks that would be assigned to the user are displayed in the proxy user's Pending Request list.

See Also:

The "Reviewing Pending Approvals" section for more information about pending requests

To designate a proxy user:

1. In the left navigation pane, click My Account, then click My Proxy. The Proxy Details page is displayed.

2. If no proxy is defined at this time, click Assign to delegate a user. The Assign Proxy page is displayed.

3. In the Proxy Name field, select Your Manager or Other User.

   By default, the Your Manager option is selected if a manager is defined for you. To look up other users, click the magnifying glass icon next to this field. The lookup form page is displayed with all the user names available for defining a proxy user.

4. Select a user ID to define your proxy user, then click Select. The selected user ID is displayed in the Assign Proxy page.

5. In the Start Date field, specify the date when you want to activate the proxy user.

6. In the End Date field, specify the date when you want the proxy user to be deactivated.

7. Click Assign. A confirmation page is displayed with the selected user ID as defined for the proxy user.

8. If information in the Confirmation page is correct, then click Assign. The Proxy Details page is displayed with the proxy user information that you defined.

9. To change the information for this proxy user, click Modify.

   To delete this user as a defined proxy user, click Remove Proxy.