Signing up using your password (Active Directory sync)

When you sign up, be sure to have an enterprise identity or a user name that is assigned to you by your organization. Your enterprise identity can be your email address, your Active Directory user name, or SAP user name, or any other enterprise directory user name. IBM® Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On takes your enterprise identity and uses it to label your Wallet.

1. In the AccessAgent navigation panel, click Sign up.
2. Enter your enterprise directory user name and password.
3. Click Next.
4. Optional: If user defined secrets are enabled, you are prompted to select a question and enter the answer.
   If you forget your password, use your primary secret to retrieve your Wallet contents.

   Important: Do not forget your primary secret answer.

   • It is case-sensitive.
   • It can be used to recover your application credentials stored in the Wallet:
     • If you forget your ISAM ESSO password or
     • If your ISAM ESSO password is out-of-sync from your Active Directory (domain) password. This scenario is only applicable if Active Directory password synchronization is enabled where the ISAM ESSO password is expected to match the Active Directory password.
   Note: You can use all the characters in the ISO Latin-1 character set in creating or resetting secrets, except for the following characters:

   • µ
   • ß
5. Click Next.
6. If prompted again, select another question and enter the answer.
   • Select Hide if you do not want to show your answer.
   • Select Register more questions for more secrets.