Because of the key role of Person objects in EmpowerID, the process by which EmpowerID joins inventoried accounts to these objects is foundational to how EmpowerID manages your user identities. As was mentioned in the Understanding Inventory topic, when EmpowerID inventories a resource system with user accounts, it does more than just write a copy of those user accounts to a table in the EmpowerID metadirectory. It evaluates those accounts to determine whether or not they are owned by users, and based on that evaluation it does one of the following three things:
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