Creating users in IBM Cloud Pak® for Security as a Service

Users who are listed as provisioned in the Welcome email can create more users.

Before you begin

  • You must have the Welcome email with details of your provisioned deployment for Cloud Pak for Security as a Service.
  • To create new users, you must be listed in the Welcome email as a provisioned user.
  • The new users that you want to create must have an email address and an IBMid associated with their email address. Users can create an IBMid from https://ibm.com/account. Email addresses are case sensitive.

About this task

Your Welcome email includes links to IBM Verify and your Cloud Pak for Security as a Service application deployment. To add new users:
  1. Add the users in IBM Verify, which is used for identify management.
  2. Add the users and assign permissions in the Cloud Pak for Security as a Service application.

Procedure

  1. Log in to your IBM Verify instance using the URL provided in the Welcome email and selecting the Sign in with IBMid option. Enter your IBMid login credentials and add the new user in IBM Verify:
    1. Click your profile in the top right of the page and select Switch to admin.
    2. From the menu, select Directory > Users & groups, and then click Add user.
    3. From the Identity source menu, select IBMid.
    4. Enter a given name and scroll down and enter a surname, username, and email address. The other fields are optional.
    5. Click Save.

    The user is now created in IBM Verify for identify management purposes and you can proceed to set up the user in your Cloud Pak for Security as a Service deployment.

  2. Log in to Cloud Pak for Security as a Service with the deployment URL provided in your Welcome email. From the Cloud Pak for Security as a Service Homepage, click Settings > Manage users.
    1. From the Manage users page, click Add user.
    2. In the Name or Email address field, enter and then select the user's email address.
    3. Click Add user.
      Tip: You can create multiple users at the same time.
    4. Select the newly create user and assign permissions. For more information about permissions, see Adding or removing users in a single account.

Example

The following demonstration shows an example of the end-to-end flow of how to create a sample user in IBM Verify and then create and assign permissions to the user in Cloud Pak for Security as a Service. This example starts from the Admin page in IBM Verify. You must click your profile and select Switch to admin when you log in to IBM Verify and then click Directory > Users and groups. Note that the IBM Verify user interface might be different than this example, depending on the version.