Access management

It’s a good idea to manage access to your Magnolia PaaS subscription. You an easily handle this using the Access option in your Cockpit. Here, you can add, edit, and delete users from your subscription as well as perform administrative operations like password resets.

To manage access for users, go to the Access section via the user icon in the top-right corner of your screen.

dropdown access

Add new user

You can add a new user to your Magnolia PaaS subscription directly from the Cockpit under the Access section.

Instructions

  1. Click the user icon in the top right corner.

  2. Choose Access from the dropdown menu.

  3. Click Add.

    create new user add button

  4. In the dialog window, fill in the required information for the new user.

    Make sure you enable the user by ticking the Enabled box.

  5. Don’t forget to click Add.

    create new user

Edit users

You can edit existing users directly from the Cockpit under the Access section.

Instructions

  1. Click the user icon in the top right corner.

  2. Choose Access from the dropdown menu.

  3. Scroll to the desired user.

  4. Click Edit.

    edit user edit button

  5. In the dialog window, edit the user as needed.

  6. Don’t forget to click Edit.

    edit user

Delete users

You can delete users directly from the Cockpit under the Access section.

Instructions

  1. Click the user icon in the top right corner.

  2. Choose Access from the dropdown menu.

  3. Scroll to the desired user.

  4. Click Delete.

    delete user delete button

  5. In the dialog window, click Delete to confirm that you definitely want to delete the user.

    delete user

Reset user passwords

You can reset a user’s password directly from the Cockpit under the Access section.

For your information

If you’re using SSO for your Magnolia PaaS subscription, you are unable to reset the password of those users logging in via single sign-on, as the password is managed via the oidc provider.

Instructions

  1. Click the user icon in the top right corner.

  2. Choose Access from the dropdown menu.

  3. Scroll to the desired user.

  4. Click Edit.

  5. In the dialog window, click Reset password.

    When successful, a Password reset email is sent to the user. There, they will follow instructions to create a new password.

    reset password

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