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Administrator Login

The first time you log on to the Provisioning Manager, you use the etaadmin global user, whose password was set up when the Provisioning Server was installed.

The Provisioning Server also provides other built-in global users that provide authentication information for use only by Provisioning Server components. You will not use these global users to log on; instead, they provide additional authentication information for the domain.

The etaadmin user is similar to a built-in superuser account. You set a password for this user when the Provisioning Server is installed. It is imperative to remember that password because you need it to log on as etaadmin the first time you use Provisioning Manager.

When you log on using the etaadmin object, you have access to all the objects in the domain. You should immediately create a global user object for yourself and assign the DomainAdministrator profile to it. When this user has been created, log in as that user. You must not perform any more actions as the non-specific etaadmin administrator. Avoiding the use of etaadmin improves the traceability of actions as seen in various logs. For more security, you can delete or suspend the etaadmin user after you create your own account.