Copying access from one user to another

You can copy a user's locale, profiles, group memberships, and direct role assignments. You can also copy direct reports access attributes to another user.

Before you begin

Before you copy access from one user to another, see Planning user administration.

To copy access from one user to another, you must be granted Manage permission at the top-level group and Assign Role and Manage permissions at the root security domain. If you do not have these permissions, you cannot see the Copy Access From option.

Administrators with Settings application permission can use the user provisioning registry settings to establish the following copy access behavior:

Determine whether the copy operation is allowed and which users, including inactive users, can be used as sources for the copy operation. For more information, see Users Can Copy Access From and Copy Access From Inactive.
Specify which attributes are copied by the copy operation. For more information, see Copy User Info Attributes.
Determine whether the copy operation adds to or replaces the user's existing attributes. For more information, see Copy User Info Choice.

Procedure

Click > Users and Security > Users.

Or, in the Standard UI, click Administration > Users.
Search for the user account that you want to modify.

Note: You can also copy access from an existing user when you are creating a new user. For more information, see Creating user accounts (Task Focused UI). If you are using the Standard UI, see Creating user accounts (Standard UI).
From the left pane, click Copy Access From.
Search for the user that you want to use as the source.
Click Copy.

Note: Personal filters are not copied.