Does my AEM have a backdoor?

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Does my AEM have a backdoor?

  by Achim Koch

Authentication in AEM as a Cloud Service is done by Adobe’s central Identity Management System — in short IMS. Most users know IMS also as the Admin Console , which is the UI of IMS. Having a central system is great as it makes it easy to manage user access to Adobe cloud solutions — no more juggling multiple users on multiple platforms.

If a member leaves the company or project, you simply remove the user account from IMS and all access privileges are revoked. On all environments. For all solutions.

For all solutions? Really? Well… not quite. There are a few exceptions that are easily overlooked...

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