Users

Before using any of the Britive features, you need to onboard users in Britive. The users can be internal Britive users and/or external users fetched from Identity providers.

Onboarding users needs the following steps:

1. Onboarding Users

2. Assigning Admin privileges to users

Onboarding Users

Adding Britive Users

1. Log in to Britive with administrator privileges.

2. Click Admin -> Identity Management.

3. Click on the Add User button.

4. Enter the following values on the Add User page:

   1. Enter the user details: First Name, Last Name, Email, and Username.

   2. Click the Assign Manager button to assign a manager to this user.

   3. Click the View Direct Reports icon to view direct reportees of the assigned manager.

   4. Select the identity provider. An identity provider (IdP) is a service that stores and verifies user identity. The default identity provider for any user is Britive. To create external users, see Onboarding External Users.

   5. Enter the password as per the rules mentioned on the page for Britive internal users and click the Generate Password button.

      1. Check the Send password to the user if you want to send this password via email to the user.

      2. Check Send password to additional recipients if you want to email this password to five recipients.

   6. Click +Add.

Managing Britive Users

An administrator can manage user details by clicking the Manage icon.

Click on the View Direct Reports icon to view direct reportees of the user and the assigned manager.

• Edit: Update the user details.

• Reset Password: Reset the user password. You can also select the Send password to the user option to send an email notification with the new password.

• Delete MFA Devices: Delete the registered MFA device(s) by the selected user. An administrator can choose one or many devices from the All MFA Devices section. Once deleted, the user has to register the device again. To register an MFA device, see User Settings.

• Disable User: Disables a user. The root user and externally managed users cannot be disabled.

• Delete User: Deletes a user. The root user and externally managed users cannot be deleted.

Managing External Users

An administrator can manage external user details by clicking the Manage icon for an external user.

• Edit: Update the user details.

• Delete MFA Devices: Delete the registered MFA device(s) by the selected user. An administrator can choose one or many devices from the All MFA Devices section. Once deleted, the user has to register the device again. To register an MFA device, see User Settings.

Onboarding External Users

You can onboard external users by configuring Identity Providers (IdP) like Azure, Okta, etc. in Britive. For more information about integration with different IDPs, see Identity Provider Integration Guides.

Assigning Admin privilege to users

After adding an admin user/tag/service identity, grant an admin privilege by adding that user to TenantAdminPolicy by using the following steps:

1. Log in to Britive.

2. Click on Admin->Role & Policy Management->Policies.

3. Search for TenantAdminPolicy and click the Manage policy icon.

4. Click Edit.

5. Select the user and click Save.

For more information about policy management, see Britive Authorization.