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user

A user represents a user in an enterprise. A user has profile information, such as name and user ID, which is managed in CA IdentityMinder. A user may also belong to groups, and have access roles.

user certification

User certification requires business managers to periodically review and approve the roles of the users they manage. Administrators use certification tasks to do the following:

• Identify a set of users that require certification
• Specify a certification period, such as a fiscal quarter, in which all users must be certified
• Notify a user, such as a manager, that there are pending certifications
• Allow a privileged user, such as a manager, to certify or remove privileges
• Disable privileges for users who have not been certified after a certain period of time

User Console

The CA IdentityMinder User Console is a Web-based user interface that CA IdentityMinder administrators use to perform admin tasks.

user directory

A user directory stores information about users, organizations, and groups. CA IdentityMinder manages user directories.

user synchronization

User synchronization evaluates and applies identity policies to users. You can synchronize users automatically by configuring a task to initiate the synchronization process, or manually by using the Synchronize User task