Chapter 3 Configuring Your Library
Working With User Accounts
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Working With User Accounts
Administrators can create local user accounts on the library for local
authentication, or enable and configure the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) for remote authentication. You may use either or both
methods, according to your needs. This section covers how to set up user
accounts and authentication for both local and remote authentication.
Local Authentication vs.
Remote Authentication 3
Local authentication control is managed on the library. An administrator
sets up accounts and privileges on the library. To use local authentication,
a user must enter a local user name and password.
Remote authentication is managed by an LDAP server. Enabling LDAP
allows existing user accounts residing on an LDAP server to be integrated
into the library’s current user account management subsystem. User
account information is centralized and shared by different applications,
simplifying user account management tasks.
To use remote authentication, you must enable LDAP on the library.
Once LDAP is enabled, users can log into the library using either LDAP
or local authentication. See Logging In When LDAP or Kerberos is
Enabled on page 244 for more information.
About Local User
Accounts 3
Administrators can create and modify two types of local user accounts:
user and administrator. These users have different library privilege
levels.
•
User — has access to one or more assigned partitions and can
perform functions within a partition, such as performing media and
tape drive functions. A user cannot perform actions that affect the
physical library, such as creating, modifying, or deleting a partition.
•
Administrator — has access to the entire physical library and all of its
partitions.
The library ships with a default administrator account. The user name for
this account is
admin and the password is password. You cannot delete
this user account or change the user name, but you can change the
password. The default administrator account is used to perform the
initial configuration of the library. If you misplace the password for the
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