IAM Services and Related Resources

Our mission statement:

Provide, support and advocate authentication, authorization and related middleware solutions for securing UH on-line services.

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Introduction

The University of Hawai'i Identity Management system (UHIMS) collects, consolidates and makes available information concerning people associated with the University.   This allows UH to establish and manage a single centralized repository of person information and to provide a single, unique identity for each person even as their relationship with UH changes over time.  Additionally, UHIMS provides UH the ability to automatically enable and disable access to online resources, such as email, Laulima, eCafe, and lab computers.

One of the early accomplishments of UHIMS was to establish the UH Number as a replacement for the Social Security Number (SSN) in order to better protect our community from identity theft. The UH Number is sometimes referenced as the "employee ID number" and the "student ID number." Whether a person is a student, faculty, staff, affiliate, ohana, retiree, or some combination of these, a person has but one UH Number appropriately known as the "UH Number."  Closely associated with the UH Number is a UH Username. The UH Username, along with a unique password of your choice, will be your key to using the University's online resources.

As a member of the UH community, one sometimes traverses many roles and may even be in multiple roles at once.  UHIMS tracks a person's roles to help ensure that each person has access to the appropriate online resources and services.  Additionally, UHIMS sends email notifications to each person when a role change is detected.  These notifications explain how the role change impacts one's access to services, one's listing in the UH Online Directory, etc.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) services are supported by the IAM group. Please email the IAM team if there are any questions.

Table of Contents

For Individuals - UH Username Services, Identity Information Resources

For Campus Identity Representatives - UH Identity Management Services

For Campus Technology Administrators - ID Management and Authentication Solutions

For Developers - Developer Resources

General Info - UH Identity and Access Management Overview

Terminology - Terminology, Standard Codes and Definitions