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Users and identities

A user is any human actor that can make requests to the OpenShift API to access resources and perform actions. Users are typically created in an external identity provider, usually a corporate identity management solution such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Active Directory.

To support multiple identity providers, OpenShift relies on the concept of identities serving as a bridge between users and identity providers. By default, a new user and identity are created upon the first login. There are four ways to map users to identities:

Method	Description
claim	If a user with the same name already exists and is mapped to another identity, creation of another identity and login will fail. This ...