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When you first visit the administrator, you will be presented with a login form as seen in Figure 1. The username and password you should use are the same as you would use for logging in to the sites hosted there. However, there are a few caveats that must be overcome before a user is permitted to log in as an administrator.
- Your user credentials need to be augmented with some admin privileges. You should contact your superiors to get these set if you feel you need them.
- You need to either:
- be in the office. The system can be set up to accept administrator connections only from certain machines/networks. This can be used to prevent people accessing the administrator system from locations where you cannot keep tabs on them.
- be issued with a trusted certificate. For administrators that need to be able to access from anywhere, an SSL client certificate can be provided that they can import into their web browser. Note that the entry of username and password is still required in this case, the presence of the client certificate simply prevents the system authentication from rejecting them outright. In general, these client certificates do not expire (although expiry dates can be arranged upon issue), and so as a matter of policy your primary system administrator should ensure that a certificate is revoked should a user leave employment with your company.
Once logged in, your session will expire after a period of inactivity. Once this happens, you will be forced to re-enter your password to reauthenticate yourself. This inactivity period is a system option, by default it is set to 15 minutes.