Changing information about a user

You can change information about a specific user, such as the e-mail address. You can update the e-mail address, change the first or last name information, or set a new password.

Note: If the federated repositories configuration has changed since the application server or deployment manager was started, you must restart the application server or deployment manager to ensure that changes to users and groups are saved to the current configuration.
  1. From the navigation pane, click Manage Users.
  2. In the Search by field, select the attribute from the list that you want to use to search for one or more users. For example, select User ID to locate users by searching by their user IDs.
  3. In the Search for field, either type the string that you want to search for to limit the set of users, or use the wildcard character (*) to search for all users. Whether the search is case sensitive or case insensitive depends on the user registry that you are using.
  4. In the Maximum results field, specify the maximum number of search results that you want to display.
  5. Click Search. After the search completes, the users that match your search criteria are displayed in the column as hypertext links.
  6. Click on one of the user links to change information about the user, as needed.
  7. In the First name and Last name fields, enter the new information, if needed.
  8. Optional: In the E-mail field, enter the new information, if needed.
  9. Optional: In the Password and Confirm password fields , enter the new password, if needed, and confirm the new password.
  10. To save the changes, either click OK to save and return to the previous window, or click Apply to save but remain on the same window.