Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Individual User Authentication

Console security administrators restrict or grant Console user access to NetWorker servers based on the Console username when you enable the User Authentication for NetWorker system option, after a subsequent restart of the NMC server service. The NMC server software enables this system option is by default.

Requests to NetWorker servers through the Administration window always come from the NMC server, regardless of any system option settings.

When you enable the User Authentication for NetWorker system option:

• Access requests to a NetWorker server appear to be coming from users on the NMC server, rather than from the gstd process owner on the NMC server.
• A NetWorker 8.2.x and earlier server allows requests only from users who belong to the Administrators list of the NetWorker server. You must include the username of the Console daemon process owner in the NetWorker Administrators list on NetWorker 8.2.x and earlier servers to which the Console users have access. The NetWorker Installation Guide describes how to add the Console daemon process owner to the NetWorker Administrators list by using the nsraddadmin command.
  NOTE:You must specify the username of the root or system user on the NMC server, regardless of whether you use individual user authentication.