Managing Passwords

Identity Manager offers password management at multiple levels:

• Administrative change management

  • Change a user’s password from multiple locations (Edit User, Find User, or Change Password pages)

  • Change passwords on any one of a user’s resources with granular resource selection

• Administrative password resets

  • Generate random passwords

  • Display passwords to the end user or the administrator

• User change password

  • Provide self-service to the end user for password changes at

    http://localhost:8080/idm/user

  • Optionally customize the self-service page to match the end user’s environment

• User update data

  Set up any user schema attribute to be managed by the end user

• User access recovery

  • Use authentication answers to grant a user access to change his password

  • Use pass-through authentication to grant a user access by using one of several passwords

• Password policies

  Use rules to define password parameters