When a user is suspended, all the associated
user accounts
become inactive. Restoring an inactive user returns the user accounts
to an active state.
Before you begin
Depending on how your system
administrator customized your system, you might not have access to
this task. To obtain access to this task or to have someone complete
it for you, contact your system administrator.
About this task
To restore a user, complete these steps:
Procedure
- From the navigation tree, select Manage
Users.
- On the Select
a User page, complete
these steps:
- Type information about the
user in the Search
information field, select an attribute from the Search
by list, and then click Search.
- To restore all of the individual accounts
that belong
to the user that you selected, select the Include individual
accounts when suspending, restoring, or deleting users check
box.
Note: Sponsored accounts associated with the user
are not affected. A suspended sponsored account must be restored through
the account table.
- In the Users table, click the
icon (
) next to the name of the user you want to restore.
- Click Restore.
If
a password is required to restore the individual accounts of the user,
you are prompted to change the password.
- If password
synchronization is enabled
- Individual accounts use
the existing synchronized password. You
are not prompted to change the password for individual accounts.
- If no synchronized password exists, you are prompted to change
the password. The passwords for all the individual accounts associated
with the user are changed to the new password.
- If password synchronization is disabled
- You are
prompted to change the password. The passwords for all
the listed individual accounts are changed to the new password. Individual
accounts on services that do not require password change on user restore
are not affected by the password change.
- If you want to schedule your
change request for a later
date and time, select Effective Date.
- Click the calendar and clock icons to select
a date
and time.
- Click Submit.
- On the Success page, click Close.
- Click Refresh to verify that the
user is returned to active status.
What to do next
View
the accounts for the restored user to ensure that the
account status is active. Perform additional user administration tasks
on the
Select a User page, or click
Close to
exit the page.