Platform users
By default, IAS comes with two user groups to manage all the platform users:
ibmapadminibmapusers
apuser (default password:
puffin). You can ssh to the appliance nodes with these credentials and run various
administrative commands. As the appliance administrator, apuser can create
additional user ids with appliance administration privileges, or create additional user ids that can
be used for regular appliance access. Platform users can come from the IAS internal directory server, or from the external directory
such as Windows Active Directory or other OpenLDAP servers. No additional configuration is required
when you use internal LDAP, and for configuring external LDAP you can use the
ap_external_ldap.pl script. For more information on configuring external directory
servers for platform users, see Integrating IAS with external directory servers.
Creation, modification, deletion and password management for platform users is done only via
command line from the NodeOS of the appliance. For more information on how to manage platform users,
see: