Managing Black Duck user accounts

There are two ways to manage user accounts in Black Duck:

1. Managing user accounts manually. A user with the User Administrator role can:

   • Add a new user account

   • Inactivate a user account

   • Change user account information

   • Change a user's password

   • View a user's groups

   • Manage user roles

2. Enabling and configuring LDAP to manage user accounts.

   After you configure LDAP to manage user accounts for Black Duck, new user accounts will be automatically created the first-time users attempt to log in. Your LDAP server will then manage passwords and account details for those user accounts in Black Duck.

   Tip: If you are using LDAP to manage most of your user accounts in Black Duck, you can still manually manage those user accounts that do not also exist in your LDAP directory, such as a default system administrator account.

   Note that you can also create external user accounts.

Users with the System Administrator role can also configure the password requirements for user accounts.