4 My Account

This section describes how to access and manage your Oracle Identity Manager account.

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Viewing and Modifying Your Account Profile

• Changing Your Password

• Specifying Questions and Answers for Password Change and Retrieval

• Delegating Your Responsibilities to a Proxy

Viewing and Modifying Your Account Profile

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

Note:

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

To view and edit your account:

1. Log in to Oracle Identity Manager.

   The Welcome to Oracle Identity Manager page appears.

2. In the left navigation pane, click My Account., then click Account Profile.

3. In the Account Profile page, click the Modify Account Profile button.

   Oracle Identity Manager displays the account information.

4. Make the desired changes and click Save Profile.

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

   Oracle Identity Manager stores the request for auditing purposes.

Changing Your Password

You can change your Oracle Identity Manager password. 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.

   The My Account menu expands.

2. Click Change Password.

   The Change Password page appears.

3. Enter your current password in the Old Password field, then enter your new password and confirm that password.

4. Click Save.

   If your password satisfies system-defined criteria, your password is changed.

Specifying Questions and Answers for Password Change and Retrieval

Oracle Identity Manager enables you to select verification questions and the answers to these questions. You configure challenge questions and answers the first time you log in to your Oracle Identity Manager account. These questions are used to verify your identity if you have forgotten your password and need to reset it, or if you want to change your password.

Your Oracle Identity Manager system administrator determines number of questions you must answer and the list of potential questions from which you may select.

You can change your challenge questions and the answers.

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 Question page appears.

4. Select your challenge questions, ensuring that you select at least the minimum number of questions, then click Select.

   The Provide Challenge Answers page appears.

5. Enter an answer for each question listed.

   Be sure to supply answers that you can easily remember.

6. Click Save.

7. Click OK to confirm your answers.

   If you forget your password or when you want to reset it, you are presented with the questions, and you must provide the answers, that you selected in the preceding steps.

Delegating Your Responsibilities to a Proxy

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

When the proxy user logs into Oracle Identity Manager, the Home page displays the user for whom the logged in user is a proxy. Tasks that would be normally be assigned to the user are displayed in the proxy user's Pending Request list. See the section on Pending Requests for more information.

To designate a proxy users:

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

   The Proxy Details page appears.

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

   The Assign Proxy page appears.

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

   By default the Manager 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 appears. It displays all the user names that are available for defining a proxy user.

4. Select the User ID radio button to define your proxy user, then click Select.

   The Assign Proxy page appears with the selected user ID.

5. In the Start Date field, click the calendar icon and highlight the date that you want to activate the proxy user.

6. In the End Date field click the calendar icon and highlight the date that you want the proxy user to be deactivated.

7. Click Assign.

   A Confirmation page appears with the selected User ID as defined for the proxy user.

8. If information in the Confirmation page is correct, click Assign.

   The Proxy Details page appears 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.