A user is an individual who has access to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud through a user account.
What the user can actually do in Collibra, depends on the license type, the global roles and the responsibilities assigned to the user.
Tip Users can be added to user groups to easily assign roles and responsibilities to multiple users at once.
Username requirements
All usernames within Collibra need to comply with our username requirements.
- General requirements:
- Uniqueness: Duplicate username are not allowed, regardless of caseExample
usernamecaseandUserNameCaseare considered duplicate - No leading or trailing spaces
- No empty usernames
- Maximum of 255 characters
- Uniqueness: Duplicate username are not allowed, regardless of case
- Character limitations: Usernames may only contain characters in the following Unicode categories:
- Letter
- Number
- Symbol
- Punctuation
- Non-spacing marks
User types
The user type of a user depends on the license type they have.
| User type | Description |
|---|---|
| Read-only user | A read-only user is a user with a read-only license. |
| Standard user | A standard user is a user with a standard license. |
User statuses
The user status of a user determines whether a user can log in or not.
| User status | Description |
|---|---|
| Enabled | A user with the enabled status can log in to Collibra. The license of this user counts towards the maximum number of licenses, if the user has the active password status. |
| Disabled | A user with the disabled status cannot log in to Collibra.The license of this user does not count towards the maximum number of licenses. |
Password statuses
| Password status | Description |
|---|---|
| Active | A user with the active password status is a user that has a password. |
| Inactive | A user with the inactive password status is a user that does not have a password. This is typically a temporary status that only occurs right after creating a user. When a password is created for the user, the password status becomes active. It cannot revert to inactive. |
Out-of-the-box users
Collibra contains out-of-the-box users. They are used to manage various aspects of Collibra.
| Default name | Resource ID | License |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin Istrator | 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000900002 |
Standard |
The Admin user is the default administrator used to configure Collibra when it is installed. |
The Admin Istrator allows you to do the initial user creation and configuration. Therefore you can delete this account, provided you have at least one other user with the Sysadmin global role.