Users

Users within Cacti can be pided 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 first choice for sharing a Cacti installation between different customers (for example, within a hosting environment).

Administrator accounts can administer Cacti by using the Cacti console. They cannot be restricted to, for example, administer just a small group of users, but different tasks within Cacti can be allowed or denied to an administrator. These include permissions to access global settings as well as updating hosts or graph templates.