Deleting user profiles

You can delete an IBM Verify Identity Governance user profile. This action affects all the accounts that are associated with the user.

Before you begin

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About this task

When you delete a user, all the accounts that are associated with the user become orphan accounts. You can optionally choose to delete the individual accounts that are associated with the user.

To delete a user:

Procedure

  1. From the navigation tree, select Manage Users.
  2. On the Select a User page:
    1. Type information about the user in the Search information field, select an attribute from the Search by list, and then click Search.
    2. In the Users table, select the check mark next to the name of the user you want to delete. You can select one or more users to delete.
    3. You might want to delete all of the individual accounts that are associated with the user that you select. Select the Include individual accounts when suspending, restoring, or deleting users check box.
      Note: Only the individual accounts that are associated with the user are deleted. Sponsored accounts associated with the user are orphaned. For the ITIM Service, both individual accounts and sponsored accounts associated with this user are deleted.
    4. Click Delete.
  3. On the Confirm page, review the users and their accounts to be deleted. Optionally, select a date and time to do the request.
  4. Click Delete to submit your request.
  5. On the Success page, click Close.
  6. On the Select a User page, click Close.

What to do next

Assign owners to orphaned accounts. See Assigning an account to a user. If an account is no longer needed, delete the account. See Deleting accounts from a service.