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Difference between enabling/disabling and activating/deactivating a local user in AEM
When I go to Tools > Security > Users and select a user in AEM I see a list of actions that include Enable, Disable, Activate, and Deactivate but I don't know what these actions do
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@aherbst Sometimes, you might find yourself wanting to disable a user account in Adobe Experience Manager, while leaving the account itself intact. This is easy to do via curl:
curl -vfs -u admin:admin http://localhost:4502/.rw.html -F “disableUser=Disabled via curl”
This sets a protected property on the user node, called rep:disabled – as the term “protected property” suggests, you aren’t supposed to directly interact with that property, but rather it should be set through the appropriate service.
To later re-enable this user, just pass a blank value:
curl -vfs -u admin:admin http://localhost:4502/.rw.html -F “disableUser=”
This will delete the protected property, and re-enable the user.
This can be done using the GUI as well
Thanks
Correct answer by
@aherbst Sometimes, you might find yourself wanting to disable a user account in Adobe Experience Manager, while leaving the account itself intact. This is easy to do via curl:
curl -vfs -u admin:admin http://localhost:4502/.rw.html -F “disableUser=Disabled via curl”
This sets a protected property on the user node, called rep:disabled – as the term “protected property” suggests, you aren’t supposed to directly interact with that property, but rather it should be set through the appropriate service.
To later re-enable this user, just pass a blank value:
curl -vfs -u admin:admin http://localhost:4502/.rw.html -F “disableUser=”
This will delete the protected property, and re-enable the user.
This can be done using the GUI as well
Thanks
Hi @aherbst ,
- Activating/Deactivating
On publisher instance , it is not advisable to create any users/groups.
If any user needs to login to publisher instance, we need to create or activate the user from author instance.If you activated the user/group from author, you can see the green box for that user/group. This means you have activated properly to publisher .
Hence, you can login to publisher instance with same user name and password which activated from author instance.
Deactivating takes place in reverse manner - which will remove use/group from publisher instance.
When you Activate below property is set to user/group node
When you Deactivate below property is set to user/group node - Enable/Disable
If you wish user/group to have it remain on repo but want to get off all the access right - in that case disable will come into the picture so that you can simply enable/modify later instead creating it from scratch.
When you Disable below property is set to user/group node
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Santosh
Santosh Sai
