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  User management in the Inyo Dashboard — search users, create accounts, block, enable, and delete users, reset passwords, and review a user's access groups.
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# User Management

The **Access Management** menu's user pages cover the account lifecycle: creating Dashboard users, finding them, and administering their status. What those users can *do* is defined separately, by the access groups covered in [Access Management](access-management.md).

**Requires:** *manage user access* (deleting users additionally requires *delete user access*).

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### Searching Users

**Access Management → Search** lists every user in the active organization:

| Column | Notes |
| ------ | ----- |
| Actions | Row actions (below) + open user details |
| Name / Username / Email | Identity |
| Groups | The user's access groups, as chips |
| Enabled | `Enabled` / `Disabled` status chip |

**Row actions** (each opens a confirmation dialog):

| Action | Effect |
| ------ | ------ |
| **Block User** | Disables the account — the user can no longer sign in |
| **Enable User** | Re-enables a blocked account |
| **Delete User** | Permanently removes the account |
| **Reset Password** | Set a new password for the user (entered twice, minimum 6 characters) |

Prefer **Block** over **Delete** when someone leaves: it preserves the account's identity in the [activity log](settings.md) history while cutting access immediately. Every one of these actions is itself recorded in the activity log.

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### Creating a User

**Access Management → Create User** registers a new account:

![The Create User form — username, password, name, email, and organizations](/images/dashboard/users-create.png)

| Field | Notes |
| ----- | ----- |
| Username | Sign-in identifier — required |
| Password | Initial password — required |
| First Name / Last Name / Email | Required |
| Organizations | One or more organizations the user belongs to (you can only grant organizations you belong to yourself) — at least one required |

Click **Register User** to create the account.

> The initial password is **not** flagged for change at first login — deliver it through a secure channel and have the user rotate it. Also note that a freshly created user has **no access groups**, so they'll see an empty Dashboard until you assign them to a group in [Access Management → Members](access-management.md).

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### User Details

Opening a user from the search results shows their profile — email, organizations, status — and **User's Access Groups**, the groups this user belongs to. Group membership is managed from [Access Management](access-management.md), not from this page.