An introduction to Cacti user management
Cacti integrates a granular user management, which lets administrators define access and permissions to trees, hosts, or single graphs, as well as some additional administrational functionality. This section will provide you with some detailed information about user management.
Users
Users within Cacti can be divided into three different groups:
- Guest/anonymous users
- Normal users
- Administrators
The difference between those users is the way they authenticate against the system and what access rights they have. No special groups exist for these different types of users.
Guest accounts would be used for a public Cacti server, offering the viewing of graphs to any interested person. This can be an internal server or one that monitors your own home network.
Normal user accounts need to authenticate against the server and can then access different parts of the system. Normal users can be restricted to viewing just a single Cacti tree, therefore making them the...
