Configuring local end-user accounts

FortiWeb can use local end-user accounts to authenticate and authorize HTTP requests to protected web sites. For details, see “Offloading HTTP authentication & authorization”.

To access this part of the web UI, your administrator's account access profile must have Read and Write permission to items in the Auth Users category. For details, see “Permissions”.

3. Configure these settings:


Setting name		Description
Name		Type a name that can be referenced in other parts of the configuration, such as Jane Doe. Do not use special characters. The maximum length is 35 characters. Note: This is not the user name that the person must provide when logging in to the CLI or web UI.
User Name		Type the user name that the client must provide when logging in, such as user1. The maximum length is 63 characters.
Password		Type a password for the user account. The maximum length is 63 characters. Tip: For improved security, the password should be at least eight characters long, be sufficiently complex, and be changed regularly. To check the strength of your password, you can use a utility such as Microsoft’s password strength meter.

5. To activate the user account, you must indirectly include it in a server policy that governs connections to your web servers. Continue with “Grouping users”. (For an overview, see “To configure and activate end-user accounts”.)