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Bridge GUI Guide: Administrative Access
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NOTE: You can
view but not edit
the list against which
passwords are checked
by clicking
Password Dic-
tionary: VIEW.
You can optionally view current password complexity
requirements by clicking
More Information in the upper right
of the
Edit Password screen and then Password Complexity
Settings
.
7 Click APPLY in the upper right of the screen (or CANCEL the
creation of the new account).
The new account will be listed, in Advanced View, in
Administrator Settings on Configure -> Administration.
Figure 2.13. Advanced View
Administrator Settings
frame, all platforms
NOTE:
Refer to Sec-
tion 2.2.1.6 for de-
tails on configuring the
Bridge
to use a third-
party or Fortress RADI-
US server to authenticate
administrators.
When the Bridge is configured to authenticate administrators
through a third-party or Fortress user authentication database
(
Authentication Method: RADIUS), administrators who log on
successfully through a user account are automatically added to
the Bridge’s local database of administrator accounts as
Learned accounts. (Refer to Section 2.2.1.6 for more on
administrative authentication methods.)
Up to ten such
Learned accounts can be present. They appear
among configured accounts on the
Admin Users page—and in
the local administrator database—with a
Learned status of Yes.
Learned account credentials can be authenticated only by the
third-party RADIUS server or Fortress user authentication
database on which their accounts were originally configured. A
Learned administrator cannot log on to the Bridge through the
local administrator database until you convert the account to a
locally configured account (as indicated by a
Learned state of
No).
NOTE: Once a
Learned account
has been converted to a
local configured ac-
count, it is completely
independent of the ac-
count in the authentica-
tion service from which
it was learned.
To convert a learned account to a configured account:
1 Log on to the Bridge GUI through an Administrator-level
account and select
ADVANCED VIEW in the upper right corner
of the page, then
Configure -> Administration from the menu
on the left.
2 In the Administrator Settings frame, locate the record for the
Learned (Yes) administrator whose account you want to
convert (the
Username will match the administrator’s
RADIUS-server user name), and click the
EDIT button to the
left of the record.
You need not make any changes to the account.