User Store - User Guide

User Management

The User Management component of the WSO2 Carbon facilitates the management and control�of user accounts and user roles at different levels. The key functionalities of this component include:

Figure 1: User Management

Managing User Accounts

Use the Users page to add new user accounts, modify existing accounts, or delete existing accounts.

Figure 2: Managing Users

  1. In the navigator, under Configure, click User Store. The User Management page appears.
  2. Click Users in the System User Store panel. The Users page�appears.

Managing User Roles

Use the Roles page to add new user roles, modify existing roles, or delete existing roles.

Figure 3: Roles Management

  1. In the navigator, under Configure, click User Store. The User Management page�appears.
  2. Click Roles in the System User Store panel. The Roles page�appears.
    1. Click Add New Role on the Roles page.
    2. Enter the role name, and optionally, you can select the users who belong to that role.
    3. Click Next.
    4. Figure 4: Add user role

    5. In step 2, select the permissions you want to assign to the role.
    6. Click Finish. The role you created will appear in the Roles panel.

Figure 5: Add user role

Managing External User Stores

You can plug in an external user store, and use your existing users and roles in third party user stores.

Note: WSO2 Carbon supports only�one external user store to be plugged in parallel. However, you can have both the internal user store and an external user store configured, and the Carbon platform will use both of them when authenticating and authorizing users. If the same user names and role names exist in the internal and external user stores, then the internal user store is given precedence over external user store. Therefore to avoid conflict it is strongly advised not to have conflicting user and role names.

Figure 6: External User Store

The User Manager supports the following forms of external user stores.

With LDAP and AD, you can use the existing authentication systems to control access to the WSO2 Carbon platform. You can also use your own custom database, designed to manage users and roles, and plug it into the WSO2 Carbon platform.
  1. In the navigator, under Configure, click User Store. The User Management page�appears.
  2. Click Add External User Store. The Add External User Store page appears.

Figure 7: Adding an external user store