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Project WebSynergy Milestone 4 Administration Guide

Creating an User Account on WebSynergy

Any user who can accesses the HTTP instance of WebSynergy can create a user account on it. You can sign in by selecting Sign In from the welcome menu. If you are an existing user, you can sign in by using your user name and password. To create a new account click on the Create Account link and follow the instructions to create an account. When you add an user account, the user is added to the list of Users in the Enterprise Admin Portlet. The admin user can monitor all the user accounts.

Also, you can login to WebSynergy by using an OpenID. To be able to login using an OpenID, you need to get an OpenID from any of the popular OpenID providers. For more information, see http://openid.net/. You can get an OpenID from any of the popular OpenID providers such as, are claimID, myOpenID, VeriSign's Personal Identity Provider, myID.net, and myVidoop.

When you create an OpenID with a OpenID provider such as myOpenID, you get an email to the mail ID provided by you. Your OpenID will be authenticated when you check your mail, and you can use the OpenID to login to any of the websites which support OpenIDs. The OpenID is in the form of an URL, and you can sign-in and sign-out of the OpenID. When you have signed into an OpenID, you can login to any of the websites which support OpenIDs by using your OpenID.

The below procedure discusses the example of signing into WebSynergy by using an OpenID created by using myOpenID.

ProcedureTo login to WebSynergy Using an OpenID

  1. Access the HTTP instance for WebSynergy using http://<machine-name>:8080.

  2. Choose Sign In from the welcome menu.

  3. Click on the OpenID link.

  4. Specify your OpenID and click Sign In.

    In this example, specify the OpenID from myOpenID. You need to be logged on to your OpenID for the OpenID authentication to work.

  5. Disable the Skip this step next time I sign in to http://<machine-name>:8080 option, and click Continue.

  6. Provide the required information and click Save.

    Note –

    For the OpenIDs provided by yahoo and many other OpenID providers, you need to register the OpenID by selecting My Account –> Identification –> OpenID.