User Registration with Password Entry¶

Registering users with password entry is an account management feature offered by WSO2 Identity Server.

In this approach, an administrator first creates a user account in the system upon which a confirmation link will be emailed to the user’s registered email Id. Once the user clicks on the confirmation link, the user will be taken into a screen prompting to enter the password. Once the user enters the correct password, the user account gets activated.

Scenario¶

Pickup is a cab company that has many employees who use different credentials to sign in to different internal enterprise applications. While Sam is an administrator at Pickup, Jane is a new recruit.

Sam wants to register a user account for Jane and get it activated by requesting Jane to enter a password.

Let's learn how it's done!

Set up¶

Follow the steps below to configure WSO2 Identity Server to enable password entry for account confirmation.

1. Open the deployment.toml file in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf directory.

   1. To request password entry from the users who are registered via Management Console, add the following configurations.

      [identity_mgt.user_onboarding]
      ask_password_from_user= true

   2. To configure the email server to send emails requesting password entry, add the following configurations.

      • from_address: This is the email address from which the confirmation email will be sent.
      • username: This is the user name of the given email address.
      • password: This is the password of the given email address.
      Format

      [output_adapter.email]
      from_address= ""
      username= ""
      password= ""
      hostname= "smtp.gmail.com"
      port= 587
      enable_start_tls= true
      enable_authentication= true

      Sample

      [output_adapter.email]
      from_address= "[email protected]"
      username= "wso2iamtest"
      password= "Wso2@iam70"
      hostname= "smtp.gmail.com"
      port= 587
      enable_start_tls= true
      enable_authentication= true

      If you are using a Google email account

      Google has restricted third-party applications and less secure applications from sending emails by default. As WSO2 Identity Server acts as a third-party application when sending emails for password entry, follow the steps below to enable your Google email account to provide access to third-party applications.

      1. Access https://myaccount.google.com/security.

      2. Under Signing in to Google section, turn off the 2-step Verification option.

2. Restart WSO2 Identity Server.

3. Sign in to the WSO2 Identity Server Management Console at https://<SERVER_HOST>:9443/carbon as an administrator.

4. On the Main menu of the Management Console, click Identity > Identity Providers > Resident.

   

5. Under the Account Management Policies section, click User Onboarding.

   

6. Select the Enable User Email Verification check box.

   

7. You may enter the password entry validity period (in minutes) in the Ask password code expiry time text box.

   

8. Click Update.

   You have now configured WSO2 Identity Server to send the user account confirmation email to the registered user. Let's try it out!

Try out¶

1. To create the user account for Jane:

   1. On the Main menu of the Management Console, click Identity > Users and Roles > Add.

      

   2. Click Add New User.

      

   3. Enter the required data as follows.

      

      • Domain: Primary
      • Username: Jane
      • Define password here: Unselected
      • Ask Password from user: Selected
      • Email Address: Enter the email address to which you wish to receive the account confirmation email.

      Using special characters

      • In the username

      Note that the special characters @, /, \, !, (, ), *, ~, <, >, and whitespaces are not allowed in usernames as they have been reserved for other purposes. See Usernames in WSO2 Identity Server for more information on this.

      • In the email address

      If you are using special characters such as $ in your email address, see Configuring Emails with Special Characters.

   4. Click Finish.

   5. A confirmation email requesting to enter the password is sent to the given email address.

      

   6. Click Create Password. The Reset Password screen appears.

      

   7. Enter a preferred password and click Submit.