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Authentication methods
Three different authentication methods can be used with SDMC. They are:
򐂰 Local authentication
򐂰 LDAP
򐂰 Kerberos
9.1.5 User management
User management consists of user creation, changing attributes of the user, and
removing users. In the SDMC, this job is started as a background task and
handed to the appropriate agent for execution, so it can take a bit of time before
the results appear in the user interface.
Creating a user
If the user does not exist in the SDMC, it can be created. This section discusses
how to use the GUI to perform this task.
Note: Unlike IBM Systems Director, SDMC can create local users on the
underlying operating system. Although the task in SDMC is called Create
User Account, it only applies to local user accounts.
LDAP and Kerberos users must exist beforehand, using the means of user
creation appropriate to those authentication methods.