Editing a User's Information or Password

Editing a User

To edit a user's details, including their password:

1. On the top-right corner, select Users and Groups.
2. Select a user by clicking anywhere in user record and choose Edit user.
3. In the dialog box that opens, edit any fields except Username.
4. Select Update user.

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Editing the password of the user System

To edit the password of the default user system, the following steps, in addition to the above steps 1 to 5, are required:

1. Encrypt the system user's password using the utility encrypt.sh as follows:

Shell

cd <tamr-home-directory>/tamr
./encrypt.sh -AES256
Please enter a password to encrypt:

2. Set the configuration variable TAMR_SYSTEM_PASSWORD to the encrypted output generated in Step 1 above using the admin tool. See Setting Configuration Variables.
3. Restart Tamr and its dependencies. See Restarting.

Switching from External to Internal User Management in Tamr

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Externally-Managed Users

Tamr synchronizes user information and passwords for externally-managed users each time they log into Tamr. You can edit user information or passwords for these users only if you switch to managing the users internally. When Tamr manages users internally, it uses the information and credentials stored in Tamr and does not query any external systems for updates on name, email, or password. If a new password has not been set in Tamr for the newly internal user, the previous external password will continue to be used.

Note:

• Internally managed users can later be successfully changed to external management only if the usernames match exactly between Tamr and the external system. You will be able to toggle this at any time, but you must ensure that the usernames match exactly (case sensitive) in order to avoid creating a duplicate user.

• Users managed externally in the past will be able to log in with either their externally- managed password, or with the password of their choosing when switching to internal management.

To toggle between internal and external user management for a given user:

1. On the top-right corner, select Users and Groups.
2. Select a user by clicking anywhere in the row describing them and choose Edit user.
3. In the dialog box that opens, select the toggle to change between internal and external user management for the selected user.
4. Select Update user.