Manual Chapter : Users User Groups and Roles

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F5 iWorkflow

  • 2.3.0
Manual Chapter

Overview: Users, user groups, and roles

A user is an individual to whom you provide resources. You provide access to users for specific iWorkflow™ system functionality through authentication. You can associate a user with a specific role, or associate a user with a user group, and then associate the group with a role.

A role is defined by its specific privileges. A user group is a group of individuals that have access to the same resources. When you associate a role with a user or user group, that user or user group is granted all of the role's corresponding privileges.

The iWorkflow™ system creates two default users as part of the initial setup and licensing process. These user accounts cannot be revised (except for their passwords) or duplicated. After setup is complete, you can create additional user types and roles to meet your business needs.

Default user type Default password Access rights
admin admin This user type can access all aspects of the iWorkflow system from the system's user interface.
root default This user has access to all aspects of the iWorkflow system from the system's console command line.

User types persist and are available after an iWorkflow system failover. You can authenticate users locally on the iWorkflow system or remotely through LDAP or RADIUS.

Changing the default password for the administrator user

You must specify the management IP address settings for the iWorkflow® system to prompt the system to automatically create the administrator user.
After you initially license and configure the iWorkflow system, it is important to change the administrator role password from the default, admin.
  1. Log in to iWorkflow™ with the administrator user name and password.
  2. At the top of the screen, click Access Control.
  3. On the Users panel, for Admin User, click the gear icon and then Properties.
  4. For the admin account, in the Old Password field, type admin.
  5. In the New Password and Confirm New Password fields, type a new password.
  6. For the root account, in the Old Password field, type default.
  7. In the New Password and Confirm New Password fields, type a new password.
  8. To save this configuration, click the Next button.

Adding a locally-authenticated iWorkflow user

You create a user and then associate that user with a particular role to define access to specific iWorkflow™ system resources.
  1. Log in to iWorkflow™ with the administrator user name and password.
  2. At the top of the screen, click Access Control.
  3. In the Users panel, hover over a user, and click the gear icon when it appears.
    The panel expands to display the User properties.
  4. From the Auth Provider list, select Local.
  5. In the Full Name field, type a name to identify this user.
    The full name can contain a combination of symbols, letters, numbers and spaces.
  6. In the Password and Confirm Password fields, type the password for the new user.
  7. Click the Add button.
You can now associate this user with a role.