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orion3311

Signing into Root access

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I'm trying to fix up a couple things for IAM, for example setting up a new IDp and looking for the settings to be able to eventually disable the current IDp. I need a sanity check.

That said, over the last few years I updated my root account a new alias, and while I can sign in, it looks a bit different and I'm not 100% sure I'm actually in as root. When I sign in using the (alleged) root account, I see the hierarchy showing up like this:

Root

|

\ My User

Is that normal for the actual root account? I ask as I'm not seeing my current IDp under IAM which I believe was done using root. I want to switch to using identity center and a new IDp.

Posted Mar 2, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

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