Recreate a deleted user account

All user accounts are identified using a unique identifier that is separate from the user name. Deleting a user account also deletes the user's access rights but does not delete the user account's unique identifier. When creating a user account with the identical name, the new user account does not automatically have access to the same resources as the previous account.

When creating another user account with the same name, recreate the security settings of the account. Either add the user account to a group with defined security settings or create permissions for a user account when securing a resource.

The account must have the security policy

Keep record of deleted accounts

set to

disabled

to create an account using the name of a previously deleted account.

Prerequisites

Obtain these permissions in the

Users

folder in

FactoryTalk Administration Console

Explorer

:

To recreate a deleted user account

To delete a user account from both

FactoryTalk

directories, delete the account from one directory and log off that directory. Log on to the second directory and delete the account in the second directory.