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How to create a system user in AEM 6.1?

  • October 16, 2015
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On AEM 6.1.. I am trying to create a System User (rep:SystemUser). Can anyone help me?

I need this system-user to map to a service in OSGI that i want to use to Write some data to aem content. 

I can see the "system users" in CRX at this location: /home/users/system 

I tried to create a new node to create a new-user with "jcr:primaryType rep:SystemUser", and defined the rep:PrincipalName, but that property is not being set as "Protected=true", by default is is taking as "Protected = false" and so saving the node is failing with that message.

Reference: http://aemfaq.blogspot.com/2015/01/aem6-default-groups-users-without.html

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    Best answer by Alex Collignon

    Hi Surendra,

    CRX Explorer allows you to create system users.

    1. Open http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/index.jsp
    2. Login as admin
    3. Click User Administration
    4. Click Create System User
    5. Set the UserId
    6. Click Save

    Hope that helps.

    Alex

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    Anonymous
    October 16, 2015

    smacdonald2008 wrote...

    See http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__hks9-hello_we_hav.html

     

    Thanks. This is a follow up to that post. It was recommended to create a "rep:SystemUser" , and i was following that o create a system-user, but could not.

    And i also tried to access the services with a new user defined.. but the osgi services mapped using "Sling Apache Service User Mapping Service" is working only with a "system user" and not with a regular user.

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    Alex CollignonAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2015

    Hi Surendra,

    CRX Explorer allows you to create system users.

    1. Open http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/index.jsp
    2. Login as admin
    3. Click User Administration
    4. Click Create System User
    5. Set the UserId
    6. Click Save

    Hope that helps.

    Alex

      smacdonald2008
      smacdonald2008
      Level 10
      October 16, 2015

      I asked Alex whom answered the other thread to follow up here. 

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      Anonymous
      October 16, 2015

      Alexandre COLLIGNON wrote...

      Hi Surendra,

      CRX Explorer allows you to create system users.

      1. Open http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/index.jsp
      2. Login as admin
      3. Click User Administration
      4. Click Create System User
      5. Set the UserId
      6. Click Save

      Hope that helps.

      Alex

       

      Awesome, thanks  much. Works for me!!!

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      srikanth_pogula
      Level 3
      November 1, 2016

      Hi,

      What is the best way to package and move system user across different environments? To be precise, we are planning to create a system user in one dev environment, create a package and install it in other environments like QA, Staging and Production, what is the efficient way to achieve this?

      In one of the environments, we created a system user in author instance, given appropriate permissions, activated the user but unable to find him in publish(by searching system user in useradmin console). However system user node exists in publish crxde(under /home/users/system). Did anyone face this issue?

      If yes, could you please suggest the steps to resolve this issue.

      Thanks in advance.

      federicos727792
      federicos727792
      Level 3
      January 18, 2017

      Hi srikanth,

      Were you able to resolve this?

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      srikanth_pogula
      Level 3
      January 18, 2017

      Hi federicos,

      We have followed the approach to create system user in one dev environment, created a package and installed in other environments. The above issue where we could nor find system user in useradmin console was limited to one environment which we resolved by creating system user manually. We have given permissions manually to the system user.

      Thanks,

      Srikanth Pogula.

        federicos727792
        federicos727792
        Level 3
        January 18, 2017

        Thanks for the quick answer. During my testing I've found that it works too.

        Thx,

        Federico

        mikezooz
        mikezooz
        Level 4
        September 7, 2018

        creating system user manually is not a good practice, do we have any other way to achieve?

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