Before Bastionhost users can perform O&M operations on hosts, the administrator must create O&M rules to authorize the users to perform O&M operations on specific hosts and host accounts. This topic describes how to create O&M rules.
Authorize a user to manage hosts
To authorize a user to manage hosts, perform the following steps:
- Find the user whom you want to authorize to manage hosts and click Authorize Hosts in the Actions column.
Authorize the accounts of a single host for a user
To authorize the accounts of a single host for a user, perform the following steps:
- Find the user whom you want to authorize to manage hosts and click Authorize Hosts in the Actions column.
- On the Authorized Hosts tab, click the account name or None. Authorize accounts in the Authorized Accounts column.
Authorize the accounts of multiple hosts for a user
To authorize the accounts of multiple hosts for a user at a time, perform the following steps:
- Find the user whom you want to authorize to manage hosts and click Authorize Hosts in the Actions column.
- On the Authorized Hosts tab, select the hosts whose accounts you want to authorize
for the user and choose .
- In the Batch Authorize Accounts panel, specify Accounts.
Note When you want to authorize the accounts of multiple hosts for a user at a time, you can select only one host account at a time.