Disable local logins

If you want to authenticate all logins to the appliance through a directory service, you must disable local logins. Also, if a directory is inaccessible in some special cases, you can enable the emergency local login. To enable emergency local login, you must disable local logins.

IMPORTANT:

Local logins cannot be disabled until you log in using an authentication directory service as an Infrastructure administrator. Verify that you can log in to the appliance as an Infrastructure administrator from the authentication directory service before continuing.

Prerequisites

  • Privileges: Infrastructure administrator.

  • From the directory service, you must be logged in to the appliance as an Infrastructure administrator.

Procedure
  1. From the main menu, select Settings and click Security.
  2. Click the Edit icon in the Security panel or select Actions > Edit.
  3. On the Edit Security screen, under Authentication, disable Local login.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Verify the setting by attempting to log in to the appliance with a local user account.

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