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User Management

The gateway is provided with an Admin level account with a default passphrase. It is recommended that you change the default passphrase after first use and periodically thereafter. For more information on keeping your device secure, see Securing Your Device.

Creating and Editing a User

In addition to setting a default passphrase for a new user account, you also set the user privilege level. There are three levels: Admin, Tech, and User.

Create new users, edit user privileges, and delete users. A user needs to be created before user passwords and privileges can be specified.

User Privileges

The user privilege level governs what a user is allowed to do:

  • User: Only allows the user access to areas with User Level set to “User.”
  • Tech: Only allows the user access to areas with User Level set to “User” or “Tech" within the designated Zones.
  • Admin: Allows access to all areas except where User Level set to “None”.

Zones: A Zone allows you to designate areas that a Tech user has access to. Zones are assigned to URIs in HTTP Server Security settings and also assigned to Tech Users. To specify that a Tech user can access a specific URI, make sure that the zone assigned to the Tech User matches the zone associated with the URI in the HTTP server security setting. To learn how to assign user access to specific URIs, see HTTP Server Security.

User Configuration Settings

The following table describes the Web Manager User configuration settings.

Links to the equivalent settings for the CLI and XML reference are listed below.

For CLI, see Config User level.

For XML, see configgroup User.

User Settings Description
Password Passphrase for the user account.
Privilege Privilege level for the user account. Choices are: Admin, Tech, or User.
Allow Tech A to change password Available when Privilege is set to Tech or User.
"Disabled" allows Admin or self to change the password.
"Enabled" also allows any Tech with Zone A access to change the password.
Zones Available when Privilege is set to "Tech." Provides fine-grained access control to specific URIs configured in the HTTP server security settings.