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You must have at least the Editor@USERS role to create users and the Editor@USER_GROUPS role to create user groups. USERS and USER_GROUPS are virtual resources.

1. Log in to your portal as the portal administrator.

2. Click...

   Administration | Access | Users and Groups | [New User | New Group]

3. If you are creating a new user group, enter a name for the user group.

4. If you are creating a new user...

   1. Enter a User ID for the new user.

      The User ID must be 3 to 60 characters in length. It can contain alphanumeric characters, DBCS, and the hyphen "-", period ".", and underscore "_" characters. No other characters are permitted in this field.

   2. Enter and confirm a password for the new user.

      The password must be unique and 5 to 60 characters in length. Valid passwords may contain only the characters a-z, A-Z, period ".", dash "-", and underscore "_ ".

   3. Enter a first name for the new user.

   4. Enter a last name for the new user.

   5. Optional

      Enter an e-mail address for the new user.

      This field is not required for successful creation of a new user.

   If you use an LDAP server for your users and groups, your LDAP configuration might place additional restrictions on user and group names. For example, the LDAP configuration might require user names and passwords to be a minimum of 8 characters in length.

5. Select Preferred language from the drop down list.

   This field is not required for successful creation of a new user. If you do not select a preferred language or if the language is not supported by the portal, the default language is the default IBM WebSphere Portal language.

6. Click OK.

 

Parent topic

Users and groups

 

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Special characters in user ID and passwords