System information

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Your server has two administrator accounts after you finish the initial setup process
described in Chapter 3. The primary administrator account is the one whose name and
password you entered while setting up the server. The other administrator account also
has the password you entered, but its name is Local Administrator, and its short name
is localadmin. The table below summarizes their similarities and differences.
The primary administrator account is in your server’s directory together with other user
accounts you create using the Users pane of Server Preferences. You can use this
administrator account on the server itself, and you can use it to manage your server
over the network from another Mac.
The Local Administrator account is stored on the server, not in its directory, together
with any user accounts you might create using the Accounts pane of System
Preferences. You can use the Local Administrator account to log in on the server and
use Server Preferences on the server in the event of a malfunction that makes the other
administrator account unusable.
Primary administrator Local administrator
Name and short name Specified during setup Local Administrator and
localadmin
Password Specified during setup Specified during setup
Stored in the server’s directory Yes No
Can be used from an
administrator computer
Yes No