User Management

User kernel of Carbon has the following features:

• The concept of single user store, which is either external or internal.
• Apache LDAP is the default, embedded user store.
• Ability to operate in read-only mode on your organization's LDAP and Active Directory userstores.
• Ability to operate in read-write mode on internal and external user stores.
• Supports any custom realm.
• Roles can contain users from external user stores.
• Improved configurability for external user stores.
• Capability to read/write roles from/to LDAP/Active Directory user stores.
• Implements management permission through the management console UI.

The user core in all WSO2 Carbon-based products is defined in $PRODUCT_HOME/repository/conf/user-mgt.xml file.

Visit the following pages to learn more information about the user core kernel usage:

• Introduction to User Management
• Users and Roles Configuration
• Realm Configuration
• Default JDBC User Store Configuration
• Changing the RDBMS
• Configuring External User Stores