privacyIDEA has only one login form that is used by administrators and normal users to login. Administrators will be able to configure the system and to manage all tokens, while normal users will only be able to manage their own tokens.
You should enter your username with the right realm. You need to append the realm to the username like username@realm
.
Administrators can authenticate at this login form to access the management UI.
Administrators are stored in the database table Admin
and can be managed with the tool:
pi-manage admin ...
The administrator just logs in with his username.
Note
You can configure privacyIDEA to authenticate administrators against privacyIDEA itself, so that administrators need to login with a second factor. See faq_admins
how to do this.
Normal users authenticate at the login form to be able to manage their own tokens. By default users need to authenticate with the password from their user source.
E.g. if the users are located in an LDAP or Active Directory the user needs to authenticate with his LDAP/AD password.
But before a user can login, the administrator needs to configure realms, which is described in the next step first_steps_realm
.
Note
The user my either login with his password from the userstore or with any of his tokens.
Note
The administrator may change this behaviour by creating an according policy, which then requires the user to authenticate against privacyIDEA itself. I.e. this way the user needs to authenticate with a second factor/token to access the self service portal. (see the policy section policy_login_mode
)