User authentication using the web interface

When the server is installed, you can log in using the default root password (username=root, password=default).

Once logged in, you can specify how the general user authentication should be done:

        Admin (Image preferences) | Authentication (Image userauthentication) Authentication mechanism

This will reveal the three different modes of authentication as shown in figure 4.2.

For the LDAP and Active Directory, a settings panel will be revealed when the option is chosen, allowing you to specify the details of the integration (see figure 4.3 for an example of LDAP settings).

Note that membership of an administrative group is used to control which users can access the admin part of the web interface. These users will also be able to set permissions on folders (see Access privileges and permissions). For the built-in authentication method, this means adding particular users to the built-in admin group. For Active Directory or LDAP, this means designating a group in the box labeled Admin group name and adding any users who should be administrators of the CLC Server to this group.

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Figure 4.2: Three modes of user authentication.



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