Add Local User Accounts

Add A Local User Account Via The User Administration Portlet

uPortal provides a user administration portlet that enables administrators to create local portal user accounts. To use this portlet, navigate to the "User Administration" portlet.

Select the Create a User link.

In the next screen, enter a username, user attributes, and a password for the new user account.

After submitting the form, the user is created in the portal's local account database. The summary page displayed allows administrators to view and edit the user's attributes, view his or her permissions in the portal, and impersonate the new user.

Add A Local User Account Via Import/Export

Local user accounts may be created, modified, and deleted via uPortal's import/export tools, either on the command line or in the import/export portlet.

An example of a user account xml file can be found here: ../uportal-war/src/main/data/quickstart_entities/user/faculty.user.xml

Then you can import your user from the command line like this:

ant data-import -Dfile=<path to your file>/faculty.user.xml

Add A Local User Account or Change Password Via The Command Line

uPortal provides a number of installation and configuration utilities as command line tools implemented in Ant and Maven.

One of these is the md5passwd uPortal-local account creation tool.

To create a local user account or change a password use the command line tool below by doing the following:

ant md5passwd -Dusername=guest-lo