All Managed Fusion requests must come from a registered user.

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Add Users

The first user who logs in becomes the user admin. There are two approaches for adding users:
  • Manual – Add users manually to a security realm that does not auto-create users.
  • Automatic – For a security realm that uses an external authentication provider, Managed Fusion can add users automatically. When creating the security realm, check auto-create users. Managed Fusion creates a user the first time someone logs into Managed Fusion.
When you add a new user manually, you must provide a unique username and valid password. All other information is optional. However, unless either roles or permissions are specified (or both), this user will not be able to do anything in Managed Fusion. If you specify API permissions in a user definition, those permissions override corresponding permissions defined in the user’s roles. See Permissions for more information about how permissions supplied by multiple roles and by user definitions combine.

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Manage Users in the Managed Fusion UI

Only Managed Fusion users with administrative privileges (for example, those who are assigned the built-in role admin) can manage users. Manage users in the Managed Fusion UI. Click System > Access Control > Users.

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Manage Users via HTTP Requests to the Users API

See page Users API.

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User Information

Managed Fusion stores user information in Apache ZooKeeper. Each User entry in ZooKeeper contains the following:
  • id– A globally unique user ID (UUID), created by Managed Fusion based on username, realm-name
  • realm-name– The Managed Fusion security realm name; the default is “native”.
  • username– The username string, which is unique within the specified security realm
  • permissions– List of permissions that have been explicitly assigned to the user in the Managed Fusion UI (in System > Access Control)
  • role-names– List of roles assigned to the user in the Managed Fusion UI (in System > Access Control)
  • created-at– Timestamp; created by Managed Fusion
  • updated-at– Timestamp for the last edit; created by Managed Fusion
The following JSON shows the ZooKeeper record for the Managed Fusion admin user: 
{
  "id":"57f539d2-3f53-4011-ad6f-257a3f00fc6b",
  "username":"admin",
  "realm-name":"native"
  "password-hash":"$2a$08$3I82umlXLPSshQIW6ngj.Or06DOVgDLGohGmCB9GC0yRtvy5Nfkn6",
  "permissions":[],
  "role-names":["admin"],
  "created-at":"2016-01-28T00:00:18Z"
}
The following JSON shows the ZooKeeper record for a user entry managed by Managed Fusion: 
{
  "id":"ae9b345a-79e2-4e6d-8620-e6ed4ed2cc16",
  "username":"firstname.lastname",
  "realm-name":"lwLDAP",
  "permissions":[{"path":"collections/**","methods":["GET"]}],
  "role-names":[],
  "created-at":"2016-04-01T21:17:36Z",
  "updated-at":"2016-04-01T21:42:15Z"
}