User management : User types
 
User types
To serve different purposes, you can configure the following three user types:
• Administrator — Suited to network technicians or administrators. Depending on the access privileges, the administrator account can have full or partial access to configure all FortiRecorder NVR network and camera settings, create accounts, receive all notifications via email, and view live video feeds and previous recordings from all cameras.
• Operator — Suited to an office manager or perhaps security guard. The account can view assigned live camera feeds and associated previous recordings, including camera-based notifications via email (“snapshot notifications”). It can change its own password, but otherwise cannot change the FortiRecorder NVR or camera configuration, reducing risk of accidental misconfiguration.
• Viewer — Suited to a security guard. Only assigned live camera feeds. It cannot view previous recordings, and therefore cannot receive snapshot notifications. It can change its own password, but otherwise cannot change the FortiRecorder NVR or camera configuration.
 
Multiple administrators should not be logged in simultaneously. If configuring the same item at the same time, the administrators could inadvertently overwrite each others’ changes.
For user authentication, FortiRecorder supports local user authentication, LDAP authentication and RADIUS authentication. Fort details, see “Configuring LDAP authentication” and “Configuring RADIUS authentication”.