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User Type

Description

User type is the way categorize the users to use different password policies. Those policies can be more or less restrictive depending on the user's risk. For example, internal users (automatically created) are different from external ones.

Therefore, this field is very useful for the following cases:

  • Sort or list the users on the user's page or in the reports
  • Apply different password policies
  • Apply restrictions on the synchronization of Soffid to the target systems
  • Ease configuration in automatic rules or custom scripts

Be in mind that a user always must belong to a User Type.

Screen overview

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Related objects

  1. User: each user must be assigned a user type.
  2. Account: the shared or privileged accounts also require having selected a user type to associate it with a password policy

Standard attributes

  • Short name: internal code used to identify the user type.
  • Description: brief description of the user type.
  • Unmanaged: (yes|no) if unmanaged is Yes, users belonging to this category will not be propagated to final systems.  You must use it when you are developing a PoC.

Actions

User type query

Add new

Allows you to create a new userUser typetype. inYou can choose that option on the system.hamburger menu or clicking the add button (+).

To add a usernew User type it iswill necessarybe mandatory to fill in the required fields

Delete

Allows you to remove one or more userUser type by selecting one or more records.records and next clicking the button with the subtraction symbol (-).

To perform that action, Soffid will ask you for confirmation, you could confirm or cancel the operation.

Import

Allows you to upload a csvCSV file with the User type list to add or update User types to Soffid.

First, you need to pick up a CSV file, that CSV has to contain a specific configuration. Then you need to check the content to be loaded, it is allowed to choose if you want or not to load a specific attribute. And finally, you need to select the mappings for each column of the CSV file to add,import updatethe ordata deletecorrectly userand types.to click the Import button.

Download CSV file

Allows you to download a csv file with the basic information of all user types. 

User type detail

Apply changes

Allows you to createsave the data of a new userUser type or to update anthe existdata userof a specific User type. To save the data it will be mandatory to fill in the required fields.

Delete

Allows you to delete the User type. To delete a specifichost useryou type.can click on the hamburger icon and then click the delete button (trash icon).

Soffid will ask you for confirmation to perform that action, you could confirm or cancel the operation.

Undo

Allows you to undo any changes.changes made.