syslog-ng Store Box 6.1.0 - Administration Guide

User management and access control

The AAA menu (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) allows you to control the authentication, authorization, and accounting settings of the users accessing SSB. The following will be discussed in the next sections:

• For details on how to authenticate locally on SSB, see Managing SSB users locally.

• For details on how to authenticate users using an external LDAP (for example Microsoft Active Directory) database, see Managing SSB users from an LDAP database.

• For details on how to authenticate users using an external RADIUS server, see Authenticating users to a RADIUS server.

• For details on how to control the privileges of users and usergroups, see Managing user rights and usergroups.

• For details on how to display the history of changes of SSB configuration, see Listing and searching configuration changes.

Managing SSB users locally

By default, SSB users are managed locally on SSB. In order to add local users in SSB, all steps of the following procedure need to be completed:

1. Create users.

   For detailed instructions on how to create local users, see Creating local users in SSB.

2. Assign users to groups.

   For details about how to add a usergroup, see Managing local usergroups.

3. Assign privileges to groups.

   For information on how to control the privileges of usergroups, see Managing user rights and usergroups.

Creating local users in SSB

The following describes how to create a local user in SSB.

To create a local user in SSB

1. Navigate to AAA > Local Users and click .

   Figure 45: AAA > Local Users — Create local user

   

2. Enter the username into the User field.

   NOTE: The following characters cannot be used in usernames: <>;\/[]:|=,+*?

3. Enter a password for the user into the Password and Verify password fields.

   NOTE: SSB accepts passwords that are not longer than 150 characters. The following special characters can be used: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^-`{|}

   The strength of the password is indicated below the Password field as you type. To set a policy for password strength, see Setting password policies for local users. The user can change the password later from the SSB web interface, and you can modify the password of the user here.

4. Click in the Groups section and select a group that the user will be member of. Repeat this step to add the user to multiple groups.

   If you wish to modify the group membership of a local user later on, you can do that here.

   To remove a user from a group, click next to the group.

5. Click .

Deleting a local user from SSB

The following describes how to delete a local user from SSB.

To delete a local user from SSB

1. Navigate to AAA > Local Users.

2. Find the user you wish to delete.

3. Click next to the user, at the right edge of the screen.

4. Click .