WEBgui and who can access/login

[fizzgig656]

Hi all, yet another silly question that im sure the answer is staring right at me, but i cant see it!!

Root is default for webgui login? im assuming the only one!

How can i allow another login to have access? and can i restrict it in any way?

How can a user change their own password if need be?

 

[dlavigne]

Root is the only account that has access to the webgui. This is changing in 10, but 10 isn't out yet.

 

[fizzgig656]

Ok thanks.

 

[wgscott]

Is it possible to restrict access to the GUI to computers on a shared sub-net, for added security?

i.e, in analogy to this sort of (apache2) directive?

Allow from 123.124.

I don't want to mess with the nginx.conf file from the command-line unless I am sure of what I am doing and that the change would not be clobbered by the GUI.

 

[danb35]

No, there's no facility to restrict access to the GUI to specified hosts or subnets. I believe some of the sharing protocols allow such a limitation, but not the GUI itself.

 

[wgscott]

I figured out how to do it: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_access_module.html#allow

Edit: The GUI clobbers this setting the next time it is accessed, so I guess there really is no way to restrict access, apart from turning it off completely.

(This seems a bit too heavy-handed.)