Storage System User Administration Guide

This guide explains user management, including the different types of system administrators, their roles, and how to create and manage users.

Child Topics

• Administrator types and responsibilities
• Read-only users
• Adding an SMU user (an administrator)
• Changing an SMU user profile
• Changing user passwords
• Active Directory user authentication

  Active Directory is an LDAP-compliant hierarchical database of objects. It is very popular in enterprise environments and is becoming a de facto standard for user authentication.

• Authenticating users from an Active Directory Forest
• Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Active Directory authentication
• Configuring Active Directory servers

  Global Administrators can provide information to configure, modify, and list Active Directory (AD) servers for authentication on the Active Directory Servers page.

• Configuring Active Directory groups

  Before Active Directory users can log into the SMU, you must configure one or more Active Directory groups. After a group has been added and saved, members of that group can log into the SMU using their Active Directory name and password. Active Directory users belonging to the subgroups of the configured group also have SMU access. In Global Catalog configuration, all the groups must be of scope Universal. CLI access via Active Directory primary group is not supported for Global Catalog configurations.

• User authentication through RADIUS servers (HNAS server only)