1. A method, in a data processing device, for generating user account policies for generating user accounts to access resources of a data processing system, comprising: determining that a user account policy for an identified resource in the data processing system is to be generated; retrieving configuration information associated with the identified resource from a configuration information database; retrieving a predefined user account policy template from a user account policy template database system; and generating a user account policy data structure based on the retrieved configuration information and the retrieved predefined user account policy template.