Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

Summary

You learned a lot in this chapter about user management with in Cacti.

We covered:

• Creating a user—how to apply some basic settings to a user
• Groups—there are no user groups in Cacti
• Realm Permissions—how to give access to different parts of Cacti to a user
• Graph Permissions—how to give access to trees and graphs to a user and limit access to a single customer
• Template User—how to create a template user holding all realm and graph permissions for a specific set of users and how to use the batch copy method to apply permissions from a template user to other users
• LDAP Authentication—how to make Cacti use an external LDAP system for user authentication
• Managing users through the CLI – how to import a list of users through the CLI

Now that you have ...