Administering users

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The administration API provides classes and methods for creating, accessing, listing, and deleting Verify Identity Access user information within the user registry.

The name of a user is not case-sensitive. The following user names all refer to the same Verify Identity Access user:

user
USER
User
UsEr

The PDUser.createUser method creates a user in the user registry that is used by the Verify Identity Access policy server.

Note: When a user definition exists in the user registry, use the PDUser.importUser method instead.

The PDUser.importUser method imports an existing user definition from your user registry into Verify Identity Access and allows the user definition to be managed by Verify Identity Access.

Use the PDUser.deleteUser method to delete a user from Verify Identity Access.

Table 1 lists the user administration functions.

User registry difference: Leading and trailing blank spaces in a user name do not make the name unique when using an LDAP or Active Directory user registry. However, leading and trailing blanks do make the user name unique when using a Domino server as a user registry. To keep name processing consistent regardless of what user registry is being used, do not define user names with leading or trailing blanks.

Table 1. Administering users
Method	Description
PDUser.createUser	Creates the specified user.
PDUser.importUser	Creates a Verify Identity Access user by importing an existing user from your user registry.
PDUser.deleteUser	Deletes the specified user.
PDUser.listUsers	Lists Verify Identity Access users.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.