Deleting a User

When a user is no longer required you must completely remove their user ID from the system to prevent an identical, newly-created user from inheriting the old user's access permissions. This situation can occur because authentication and access permissions are associated with user ID.

You delete a user by removing them from the policy store, the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, the metadata repository, and the identity store.

See Delete Users Command in Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1. Delete the user from the policy store.

   If you have assigned the user directly to any application roles, you must remove all references to that user.

2. Delete the user from the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and the metadata repository using the deleteusers command.
3. If you are using Oracle WebLogic Server LDAP as your identity store, complete the following steps to delete a user:
   1. Log in to the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console.
   2. In Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, selectSecurity Realms from the left pane and click the realm you are configuring. For example, myrealm.
   3. Select Users and Groups tab, then Users.
   4. Select a user. Click Delete.
   5. In the Delete Users page click Yes.
   6. Click OK.

      The user name is removed from the User table in the embedded WebLogic LDAP server.

4. If you are using an identity store other than Oracle WebLogic Server LDAP, follow the appropriate instructions for your identity store.