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Authenticating Cluster-Wide Actions,
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3.2. Authenticating Cluster-Wide Actions The following cluster-wide actions require authentication: • Shutting down or restarting the cluster • Changing cluster settings, which include: • Managing tenants • Changing the logging host configuration • Setting the replication multicast percentage • Suspending or resuming volume recovery • Setting the power saving mode To be able to commit any of the preceding, you log in with credentials of a user in the CAStor administrators security realm. This realm is defined in the node and/or cluster configuration files. By default, there is one user in the realm: admin and this user authenticates with Basic authentication (that is, the password is sent from your browser to the Admin Console in clear text). Dell strongly recommends you change admin's password immediately, that you use the names of real users, and that you encrypt users' passwords using Digest authentication. For more information, see Section 6.2.3, "Securing the Administrator and Operator Passwords". Your user name and password remain valid for 60 seconds on most browsers and then will need to be re-entered. Safari and Chrome, however, do not time out the authentication and should therefore be used with caution if security is a concern. Following is a sample password prompt. Copyright © 2010 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 6 Version 5.0 December 2010