Manage users

This topic describes user management in Micro Focus Connect.

In this topic:

User types

Users are defined through different channels. The login credentials for each user type are detailed below:

Channel	Description	Login credentials
Default user	The installation creates a default user. Security Role: Site	User: Administrator Authenticator: Default / Micro Focus Connect
Authenticator users	If you defined a Data Source as an Authenticator, users in the data source can access the product. Security Role: User	User/Password: As defined in the data source. Authenticator: The data source Authenticator.
User window	Additional users defined in the Users window. For details, see Define additional users. Security Role: As defined by the admin.	User/Password: As defined by the admin. Authenticator: "Default" or "Micro Focus Connect"

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Add an authenticator provider

You can allow users to log in using their credentials from one of the data sources. To enable this, you need to add an authenticator provider.

To add an authenticator provider:

1. On the top banner, click Authenticators.
2. Click the Add Authenticator Provider button.

3. In the Create Authenticator dialog box, select the Authenticating Product, and type a name by which to identify the new authenticator.

   The next time users open the login page, they will be able to select the new authenticator.

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Define additional users

You can define additional users in the Users window. Each user is assigned a Security Role.

To add a user:

1. On the top banner, click Users.
2. Click the Add User button.

3. In the new row, enter a user name and password. Passwords need to follow certain rules. For details, see Password rules.

4. Select a Security role to a assign to the user. For a description of the security levels, see Security roles.

Users that you add through the Users window need to select the default Micro Focus Connect authenticator when logging in.

Password rules

Passwords need to comply with the following rules:

• Must be eight to twenty characters in length.
• Must contain one lowercase character.
• Must contain one uppercase character.
• Must contain one numeric character.
• Cannot contain more than three consecutive characters identical to your user name.
• Cannot contain the same character more than two times.
• Cannot contain a repeated string with more than three characters more than one time.
• New passwords cannot contain more than three consecutive characters identical to the current password.
• Passwords expire after ninety days.

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Security roles

The following table describes the actions that users assigned to each security role can perform.

Action	Security Role
	Site	Admin	User
Create Site users
Create Admin users
Create users
Create authenticators
Read/write global settings
Create data sources
Create connections
Create/delete user maps (version 24.1.1 and later)
Import/export (version 24.1.1 and later)
Backup the database (version 24.1.1 and later)
Import/export cross references (version 24.1.1 and later)

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