An identity management system is augmented to provide for automated provisioning of user accounts. A user account is autoprovisioned based on detected attribute patterns. A set of existing account information is retrieved. A software module resident in a computer memory performs pattern matching on the retrieved set of existing account information to extract attribute information in the retrieved set of existing account information and on the extracted attribute information to discover a first attribute pattern. Next, an account template is generated according to the discovered attribute patterns. Using the generated account template, a new account on the first target is created giving the first user access to the target.