User Manual
Users can be authorized to access specified services, serial ports, power devices and specified network-
attached hosts. These users can also be given full administrator status (with full configuration and
management and access privileges).
Users can be added to groups. Six groups are set up by default:
admin
Provides unlimited configuration and management privileges.
pptpd
Allows access to the PPTP VPN server. Users in this group have their password
stored in clear text.
dialin
Allows dialin access via modems. Users in this group have their password stored
in clear text.
ftp
Allows ftp access and file access to storage devices.
pmshell
Sets default shell to pmshell.
users
Provides users with basic management privileges.
The
admin
group provides members full administrator privileges. The admin user can access the console
server using any of the services which have been enabled in
System > Services
They can also access any
of the connected Hosts or serial port devices using any of the services that have been enabled for these
connections. Only trusted users should have administrator access
The
user
group provides members with limited access to the console server and connected hosts and
serial devices. These users can only access the Management section of the Management Console menu
and they have no command line access to the console server. They can only access those Hosts and
serial devices that have been checked for them, using services that have been enabled
Users in the
pptd, dialin, ftp
or
pmshell
groups have restricted user shell access to the nominated
managed devices but they will not have any direct access to the console server. To add this the users
must also be a member of the
users
or
admin
groups
The administrator can set up additional groups with specific power device, serial port and host access
permissions. Users in these additional groups don’t have any access to the Management Console menu
nor do they have any command line access to the console server.
