Users Guide
Conguring User Accounts and Privileges
You can setup user accounts with specic privileges (role-based authority) to manage your system with CMC and maintain system
security. By default CMC is congured with a local administrator account. This default user name is root and the password is calvin. As an
administrator, you can setup user accounts to allow other users to access CMC.
You can setup up to 16 local users or use directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP to setup additional user accounts.
Using a directory service provides a central location for managing authorized user accounts.
CMC supports role-based access to users with a set of associated privileges. The roles are administrator, operator, read only, or none. The
role denes the maximum privileges available.
Topics:
• Types of Users
• Modifying Root User Administrator Account Settings
• Conguring Local Users
• Conguring Active Directory Users
• Conguring Generic LDAP Users
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Types of Users
Conguring Local Users
Conguring Active Directory Users
Conguring Generic LDAP Users
Modifying Root User Administrator Account Settings
Types of Users
There are two types of users:
• CMC users or chassis users
• iDRAC users or server users (since the iDRAC resides on a server)
CMC and iDRAC users can be local or directory service users.
Except where a CMC user has Server Administrator privilege, privileges granted to a CMC user are not automatically transferred to the
same user on a server, because server users are created independently from CMC users. In other words, CMC Active Directory users and
iDRAC Active Directory users reside on two dierent branches in the Active Directory tree. To create a local server user, the Congure
Users must log in to the server directly. The Congure Users cannot create a server user from CMC or vice versa. This rule protects the
security and integrity of the servers.
Table 21. User Types
Privilege Description
CMC Login User User can log in to CMC and view all the CMC data, but cannot add or modify data or execute commands.
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