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Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Security
The HCL™ Accelerate security model is organization- and team-based. The organization is the base element; teams belong to organizations. Team members manage releases, events, and deployments. Administrators manage teams and assign users to them.
Managing users and authentications
Use Authorization and Authentication to manage users and authentication.
Managing users
Use the Users page to create, edit, or remove users.
Authenticating users with OIDC
Use the Authentication page to manage user authentication with OpenID Connect.

Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
- Configuring an email server
  Configuring an email server
- Calendar settings
  Use the Calendar Settings page to manage the appearance of calendar events.
- Security
  The HCL™ Accelerate security model is organization- and team-based. The organization is the base element; teams belong to organizations. Team members manage releases, events, and deployments. Administrators manage teams and assign users to them.
  - Roles and permissions
    A number of roles are defined in the product that can be assigned to a user or group. Roles set boundaries on activities that a user or group member can perform.
  - Managing users and authentications
    Use Authorization and Authentication to manage users and authentication.
    - Managing users
      Use the Users page to create, edit, or remove users.
      - Authenticating users with LDAP
        Use the User authentication settings page to manage user authentication.
      - Authenticating users with OIDC
        Use the Authentication page to manage user authentication with OpenID Connect.
    - Creating a header-based SSO authentication integration
      A header-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication realm uses an external server for authentication.
  - Managing user groups
    You can combine users into groups. When you grant permissions to the group, you simultaneously grant them to the group members. When you assign a group to a team, all group members are simultaneously assigned to the team.
  - Managing teams
    To prepare a team, you create the team and then add users or user groups to it. After you add users, you assign permissions to them.
  - Managing passwords
    Password management details how you can change the administrator password and retrieve the RabbitMQ password from Kubernetes and OpenShift.
  - Managing user access keys
    Create a key that you can use to authenticate API calls.
- Managing licenses
  Configure your license or apply a trial key.
- Managing logs
  Control the amount of detail sent to log files.

Authenticating users with OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Use the Authentication page to manage user authentication with OpenID Connect.

Before you begin

To configure the OIDC authentication, you must have HCL™ Accelerate administrator permission and privileges.

About this task

OpenID Connect is an authentication method which you can use to authenticate users.

To configure an OIDC authentication, complete the following steps:

Procedure

From the HCL™ Accelerate page, click Settings > Authentication > OIDC.
Click Configure OIDC .
On OIDC page, in the Name field, enter a name for the OIDC configuration.
In the Description field, enter a description for the OIDC configuration.
In the OIDC Issuer field, enter the issuer for OIDC authentication.
In the Authorization URL field, enter the URL of OIDC authorization provider .
In the Token URL field, enter the URL for token request with OIDC provider.
In the User info URL field, enter the URL for user information request with the OIDC provider.
In the Client ID field, enter the client ID that is registered with the OIDC provider.
In the Client Secret field, enter the client secret that the OIDC provider issues upon registration.
Click Save.

You have successfully configured OIDC authentication. You can log in to HCL™ Accelerate using OIDC configuration.
On the HCL™ Accelerate login page, click Login with OIDC to log in using OIDC configuration.
The Authorization URL page opens and validates the user for accessing the HCL™ Accelerate
On the Settings > Authentication > OIDC configuration page, click Delete configuration to delete the OIDC configuration.

Results

You have successfully configured the OIDC authentication. You can log in to HCL™ Accelerate using the OIDC authentication.