Chapter 1
Administrators
There are two types of accounts in Obidos. One is administrative accounts and the other is user accounts.
An administrator account is used to manage Obidos. This includes managing administrative accounts,
managing user accounts, setting up preferences, managing license, managing audits, etc. An Adminis-
trator (herienafter referred to as admin) cannot store digital artifacts in Obidos. An admin cannot assume
the role of a user and a user cannot assume the role of an admin. All admin accounts are local accounts.
This means those accounts are maintained within Obidos. Local accounts will have their passwords set
according to the password policy in Obidos.
Obidos has a built-in admin account ’admin’. The password for this account is set at the time of
installation. Using this ’admin’ account additional admin accounts can be created. The built-in ’admin’
account inherits every capability that is possible for an administrative account. Such an account is
referred to as a ’root admin’. The ’admin’ account can be used to create other root admin accounts or
less capable admin accounts. If your institutional security policiy requires renaming the default ’admin’
account, that can be done at the time of installation. Admin account operations are described in the
sections to follow.
1.1 License and number of users
Obidos license is based on number of users. Only the count of active regular user accounts is considered
for license units. Admin accounts do not count towards license. So if there are 112 active regular user
accounts and 7 admin accounts, only the 112 user accounts are counted for license units. Once the active
number of regular users reach the license limit, no new users can be added by admins.
1.2 Create Administrators
To create an admin account, log into Obidos using the ’admin’ account (or another admin account).
From the ”Admin Accounts” top navigation menu, select ”Create New Admin”. The password assigned
to this admin account during the account creation process is a temporary password. The admin user will
have to change the password when logging into Obidos for the first time.
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