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One of the powerful feature features of the WSO2 Identity Server; is the user management functionality. The Identity Server can be connected with any type of user store and then user store functions can be exposed as a Web Service APIs. The XACML implementation of WSO2 Identity Server uses these user management APIs for various purposes. All these user management functionalities are inherited from WSO2 Carbon platform.

Configurations are information stored in text-based files and database management systems used by the WSO2 Identity Server to serve the client in a specific manner.

1. Administrator Credentials - Administrator credentials are stored in the user-mgt.xml file in the repository/conf directory in the distribution pack. This information is used to log into the server in administrator mode.
2. User-store information - The

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1. user-store information is stored in the user-mgt.xml file in the repository/conf directory and master-datasources.xml in the repository/conf/datasources in the distribution pack. The information specifies the user-stores used by the server to store the client-specific identity data with the following types of user-stores.
   1. ldap
   2. Directory server user-store (e.g., Microsoft active directory)
   3. Database management system (e.g., MySQL, informix, cassandra)
   4. Text-based user-store
   5. Internal user-store information

This section explores different options available to customize the product according to user-specific needs.

Realm

The following image can help you understand the concept called “Realm”.

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