perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Peter Gutierrez <>]

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In another thread on 10/08/2014 02:57 PM, Andrew Lake wrote:
> - It is intentional that you cannot login as root to the web interface
> and you are prompted at login to create a non-root user that can. We
> did this for security purposes. You can see this in our release notes
> and  upgrade notes: 
> http://docs.perfsonar.net/manage_update.html#special-upgrade-notes. 
> There's a lot of changes in this release so its easy to miss.
> 

and in http://docs.perfsonar.net/manage_update.html#special-upgrade-notes

When you upgrade from a version of the software older than version 3.4,
you may be asked to create a new user to login to the web interface. This
is because any user in wheel (e.g. root) is no longer allowed to access
the web interface. Given this new constraint, if none of your existing
users can login to the web interface you will be prompted to create a new
one the first time you login as root. See Managing Users for more information.


My experience with one upgrade install is that I did have a non-root user
account that I frequently used to access the web interface on the 3.3.2
box, but I could not login to the web administrator interface post-install
with that user/password.

I had to run /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/scripts/nptoolkit-configure.py,
delete that user, and then add that user, and answer yes to the "Should
this user be able to login to the web interface?" prompt.

After that, I was able to use that account to login to the web interface.

PeterG

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