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Managing Users and Security
Managing User Accounts
Makito X User’s Guide, v2.2, Issue 02 209
Managing User Accounts
NOTE
The Accounts pages are available to administrators only (i.e., users assigned
Administrator
role). From here, administrators can create and manage user accounts for
the
Makito X (including their own accounts).
The My Account page is available to users assigned either
Operator
or
Guest
roles to
change their own account passwords. For information, see “Changing Your Password” on
page 75.
From the Accounts pages, administrators can create, delete and modify user accounts for
the Makito
X.
An account can be allocated to each user of the system so that the identity of the user can
be uniquely determined. The Makito
X provides three defined account roles to assign priv-
ileges to users: Administrator, Operator and Guest. For details, see “Role-based Authoriza-
tion” on page 66.
Using system-wide parameters, administrators can configure the allowable password
strength and composition (i.e., to force the selection of strong passwords), as well as the
periodic change of passwords. For details, see
“Managing Security Policies” on page 221.
The Makito X can also be configured for Web interface and CLI account sessions to log out
after an idle session timeout period. The session timeout period is selectable via a system-
wide parameter. For details, see
“Managing Security Policies” on page 221.
From the Account Settings pages, administrators can also upload and manage personal
public keys for accounts to enable public key authentication (instead of password-based
authentication). Note that in the current release, this only applies to SSH CLI access to the
encoder.
To open the Accounts List View:
1.
On the Administration page, click
A
CCOUNTS
from the sidebar menu.
The Accounts List View opens, displaying the list of defined user accounts for the en-
coder, as shown in the following example.