Configuration-access.cfg.md

User access and security settings (access.cfg)

Security model description

Adding new user query

• see Lesson04
• User queries are the main interfaces users can interact with. Those interfaces are defined using q language on accessPoint components.

Generating user password

• see Lesson05 In order to generate a new encrypted password for a user, please run admin.genPass interactive service:

$ yak console admin.genPass
Please enter new password: USERINPUT
Please re-enter new password: USERINPUT
Your new password is: 0x6160e6574666

New password (0x6160e6574666) should be later placed in access.cfg file.

Configuring user and/or groups

• see Lesson05

1. Setup fields uOpt and uFile in system.cfg (Security model description)
2. Generate passwords using genPass component (genPass tool)
3. Configure technical user in access.cfg (Security model description)
4. Configure ordinary users in access.cfg (Security model description)
5. Refresh users’ permissions using authentication component (authentication/refreshUFiles tool)
6. Restart the system (yak restart command)

Refreshing permissions’ settings

• see Lesson05
• Processes affected by permissions’ changes can be restarted after refresh
• Description in the dev doc