Managing users

In this section

Introduction

Users are created via the web interface, and assigned privileges to allow them to perform certain operations, as listed below.

Privilege	What it controls
Deploy	Determines whether the user can deploy a role to this node.
Update Firmware	Determines whether the user can update the firmware on this node.
Debug Menu Access	Determines whether the user can access the debug menu of this node using the Pandebug application.
User Administration	Determines whether the user can create, edit and remove user accounts on this node.
NioNode Administration Access	Determines whether the user can change settings such as network configuration and time and date.
Log Access	Determines whether the user can view or clear the log. Tip: For more information on viewing the log within NWare, see Remote Log in the NWare User Guide.

There are two default users: superuser and defaultuser, which cannot be deleted. You can add your own users as necessary.

superuser	Has all privileges enabled. None of its settings can be changed, apart from the password, which is blank by default.
defaultuser	Has all privileges enabled, apart from User Administration and NioNode Administration Access.

In NWare, when you perform an action that involves the node, such as deploying a role or updating firmware, NWare logs on to the node using a particular username. The node matches this username with the username of the same name stored on the unit. The privileges of the username on the node determine whether the action may be carried out.

Tip: Users often log on to nodes with the username defaultuser. If the settings for this username on the node show the Deploy privilege set to Disallow, it will not be possible to deploy a role to the node even when they are logged on.