Configuring administrator accounts
The
Administrator accounts
page (
Users > Administrator accounts
) lists all the local administrator
accounts that have been configured on the VCS, and lets you add, edit and delete accounts.
Default administrator account
The VCS has a default local administrator account with full
Read-write
access. This account is used to
access the VCS using the web UI, the API interface or the CLI. Note that you can still access the VCS via
the
admin
account even if a
Remote
authentication source is in use.
The username for this account is
admin
(all lower case) and the default password is TANDBERG (all upper
case). You cannot delete the default administrator account or change its
admin
username, but you should
change the password as soon as possible. Choose a strong password, particularly if administration over IP is
enabled. The access level of the default admin account cannot be changed from
Read-write
but it is possible
to disable its web and API access.
If you forget the password for the
admin
account, you can log in as another administrator account with read-
write access and change the password for the
admin
account. If there are no other administrator accounts,
or you have forgotten those passwords as well, you can still reset the password for the
admin
account
providing you have physical access to the VCS. See
Resetting forgotten passwords [p.274]
for details.
Additional administrator accounts
You can add additional local administrator accounts, which can be used to access the VCS over the web and
API interfaces, but not the CLI.
The configurable options are:
Field
Description
Usage tips
Name
The username for the administrator account.
Some names such as "root" are reserved. Local
administrator account user names are case
sensitive.
Access
level
The access level of the administrator account:
Read-write
: allows all configuration information
to be viewed and changed. This provides the
same rights as the default
admin
account.
Read-only
: allows status and configuration
information to be viewed only and not changed.
Some pages, such as the
Upgrade
page, are
blocked to read-only accounts.
Auditor
: allows access to the
Event Log
,
Configuration Log
,
Network Log
,
Alarms
and
Overview
pages only .
Default:
Read-write
The access permissions of the currently logged
in user are shown in the system information bar
at the bottom of each web page.
The access level of the default
admin
account
cannot be changed from
Read-write
.
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