Create a new identity and associate it with the newly created application partition

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for this step, you must log in with an identity that has a role with the identity\ add permission you can use the default administrator role and admin identities choose one of the following methods to create the identity and associate it with the application partition excrypt manager perform the following steps to use excrypt manager to create an identity and associate it with the partition go to the identity management menu and select add specify a name for the new identity then, in the roles drop down menu, select the name of the previously created application partition to associate the new identity with the application partition you created if the hsm is in fips mode, you must repeat the preceding steps to create a second identity the passwords for the two identities must be identical because of how the {{futurex}} pkcs #11 library logs into the hsm create a password and enter it in both the password and confirm password fields fxcli run the identity add fxcli command to create a new identity and associate it with the application partition or role that you created fxcli identity add name identity name role role name password safest if the hsm is in fips mode, you must repeat the preceding command to create a second identity after you create an indentity, you must set the name of the identity (or identities if the hsm is in fips mode) in the fxpkcs11 cfg file, in the \<hsm> section, as shown in the following example # hsm crypto operator user name \<crypto opr> \[insert name of identity that you created] \</crypto opr> \#\<crypto opr2> \[insert name of second identity if hsm is in fips mode] \</crypto opr2>