Users & People

The Users & People area is where you manage the individuals in your organization. A user is a person who can sign in through Kanshin. This page covers what a user record holds and how you add and manage them.

What a user is

A user is identified by their email address — there is no separate username. A user record holds:

Passwords are never stored on the user record. Kanshin’s authentication service holds credentials separately and securely, so the directory you manage here never contains a password.

Adding a user

Create a user from the Users & People grid by entering their first name, last name, and email. When you create a user, Kanshin sends them a welcome email with a link to set their own password — so you never handle or see their password. Once they set it, they can sign in.

Editing and removing users

You can update a user’s name and email, and remove a user who has left. Editing a user changes only their profile details; it does not touch their group memberships or role assignments, which you manage separately (see Groups and Roles & Permissions ).

Account protection

Kanshin’s authentication service protects accounts against password-guessing automatically:

• After several failed sign-in attempts in a row, an account is temporarily locked for a short cooldown, then allowed to try again.
• Sustained failures over time lead to a longer lock.
• These protections also apply per source address, to blunt automated credential-stuffing across many accounts.

These measures run on their own; there is nothing to configure, and a legitimate user simply waits out a temporary lock or resets their password.

Related pages

• Members & Invitations — bringing existing people into your organization
• Groups — organizing users into groups
• Multi-Factor Authentication — adding a second factor to a user’s sign-in
• Directory Provisioning (SCIM) — creating users automatically from your IdP