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Identity Manager 8.1.4 - Identity Management Base Module Administration Guide

Basics for mapping company structures in One Identity Manager Managing departments, cost centers, and locations Working with dynamic roles Employee administration
One Identity Manager users for employee administration Basic data for employee master data Entering employee master data Employee's central user account Employee's central password Employee's default email address Mapping multiple employee identities Disabling and deleting employees Password policies for employees Limited access to One Identity Manager Assigning company resources to employees Displaying the origin of an employee's roles and entitlements Analyzing role memberships and employee assignments Additional tasks for managing employees Determining an employee’s language Determining an employee's working hours Employee reports
Managing devices and workdesks Managing resources Setting up extended properties Configuration parameters for managing departments, cost centers, and locations Effective configuration parameters for setting up employees Configuration parameters for managing devices and workdesks

Predefined password policies

You can customize predefined password policies to meet your own requirements, if necessary.

Password for logging in to One Identity Manager

The One Identity Manager password policy is applied for logging in to One Identity Manager. This password policy defines the settings for the system user passwords (DialogUser.Password and Person.DialogUserPassword) as well as the passcode for a one time log in on the Web Portal (Person.Passcode).

NOTE: The One Identity Manager password policy is marked as the default policy. This password policy is applied if no other password policy can be found for employees, user accounts, or system users.
Password policy for forming employees' central passwords

An employee's central password is formed from the target system specific user accounts by respective configuration. The Employee central password policy defines the settings for the (Person.CentralPassword) central password. Members of the Identity Management | Employees | Administrators application role can adjust this password policy.

IMPORTANT: Ensure that the Employee central password policy does not violate the target system-specific requirements for passwords.

Password policies for user accounts

Predefined password policies are provided, which you can apply to the user account password columns of the user accounts. You can define password policies for user accounts for various base objects, for example, for account definitions, manage levels, or target systems.

For detailed information about password policies for user accounts, see the administration guides of the target systems.

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Using password policies

The One Identity Manager password policy and Employee central password policy are predefined password policies for employees' central passwords.

You can assign custom password policies to employees' password columns. You can also assign the password policies to departments, cost centers, locations, or business roles, and therefore apply password policies depending on the employees' organizational classification.

Which password policy is applied to a person is determined in the following order:

  1. Password policy of the employee's primary business role
  2. Password policy of the employee's primary department
  3. Password policy of the employee's primary location
  4. Password policy of the employee's primary cost center
  5. General password policy for employee passwords
  6. The One Identity Manager password policy (default policy)
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Changing the password policy for the password columns

If you do not want to apply the predefined password policy to the password column of employees, change the password policy assignment to the base object in the Manager.

To change a password policy's assignment

  1. In the Manager, select the Employees | Basic configuration data | Password policies| Password policies category.

  2. Select the password policy in the result list.
  3. Select the Assign objects task.
  4. In the Assignments pane, select the assignment you want to change.
  5. From the Password Policies menu, select the new password policy you want to apply.
  6. Save the changes.

Assigning password policies to departments, cost centers, locations, and business roles

You can assign the password policies for forming an employee's system user password, the access code, and an employee's central password to departments, cost centers, locations, and business roles.

NOTE: If you want to use the assignment of a password policy through company structures, you need to decide whether to use either departments, cost centers, locations, or business roles. Otherwise, performance problems may occur when determining the valid password policy. A large number of hierarchy levels could also lead to performance problems when determining the password policy to apply.

To reassign a password policy

  1. In the Manager, select the Employees | Basic configuration data | Password policies| Password policies category.

  2. Select the password policy in the result list.

  3. Select the Assign objects task.

  4. Click Add in Assignments and enter the following data.

    Table 39: Assigning a password policy

    Property

    Description

    Apply to

    Application scope of the password policy.

    To specify an application scope

    1. Click next to the field.

    2. Under Table, select the table that contains the basic objects. You have the following options:

      • Departments (Department table)

      • Business roles (Org table)

        NOTE: This table is only available if the Business Roles Module is installed.

      • Locations (Locality table)
      • Cost centers (Profitcenter table)
    3. Under Apply to, select the specific department, cost center, location, or business role.
    4. Click OK.

    Password column

    The password column's identifier. You have the following options:

    • Employees - central password (Employee table, CentralPassword column)
    • Employees - password (Employee table, DialogUserPassword column)
    • Employees - access code (Employee table, Passcode column)

    Password policy

    The identifier of the password policy to be used.

  5. Save the changes.

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