Working with an account
Working with an account
Create an administrator account
- Click the System → Administrators tab.
- Select Create new → System administrator.
- Enter your name, password, and profile. A profile is a role that has a set of rights.
- Customize a profile or create a new one on the Admin Profiles tab.
- Optional: configure two-factor authentication.
Change the password for the administrator account
- UI
- Console
- Go to System → Administrators.
- Select the user admin from the list.
- Press Edit.
- Select Change password and fill in the fields.
- Press OK.
To change the password through the CLI, enter:
config system admin
edit admin
set password <admin_password>
end
Configure account lockout
In the CLI, you can configure both the number of attempts (admin-lockout-threshold) and the waiting time after which the administrator can try to enter the password again (admin-lockout-duration).
The default admin-lockout-threshold value is 3, and the range of values is from 1 to 10. The default admin-lockout-duration is set to 60 seconds, and the range of values is 1 to 4294967295 seconds.
To change via the CLI, enter:
config system global
set admin-lockout-threshold 3
set admin-lockout-duration 60
end
Rename account
You cannot edit the user name under which you are logged in.
- Create a new administrator account.
- Log in with the super_admin account
- Go to System → Administrators.
- Edit the name.