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Identity Manager Administration Guide
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Chapter 3, User and Account Management
• In the section titled Disable Users (User Actions, Organization Actions), the note has been
amended.:
• In the section titled Enable Users (User Actions, Organization Actions), the note has been
added:
• In the section title User Authentication, a description of the authentication question policies
has been added.
The authentication question policy determines what happens when a user clicks on the
Forgot Password button on the login page or when accessing the Change My Answers
page. The following table describes each option:
NOTE If an assigned resource does not have native support for account disabling,
but does support password changes, then Identity Manager can be
configured to disable user accounts on that resource through the assignment
of new, randomly generated passwords. This configuration requires that you
enable the resource Disable and Password account features by using the
Identity System Parameters page in the Resource Wizard. See Chapter 4,
Configuration, for more information.
NOTE If an assigned resource does not have native support for account enabling,
but does support password changes, then Identity Manager can be
configured to enable user accounts on that resource through password
resets. This configuration requires that you enable the resource Enable and
Password account features by using the Identity System Parameters page in
the Resource Wizard. See Chapter 4, Configuration, for more information.
Table 2 Authentication Question Policy options
Option Description
Round Robin Identity Manager selects the next question from the list of configured questions
and assigns this question to the user. The first user is assigned the first question
in the list of authentication questions, and the second user is assigned the second
question. This pattern continues until the number of questions is exceeded. At
that point, questions are assigned to users in sequential order. For example, if
there are 10 questions, the 11th and 21st users are assigned the first question.
The selected question is the only one that is displayed. If you want the user to
answer a different question every time, use the Random policy and set the
number of questions to 1.
This option does not allow users to define their own authentication questions.