The first time you access a vanilla SkyVault installation through SkyVault Explorer,
SkyVault identifies you as a ‘guest’ user. You can identify yourself as another user by
clicking the Login link and entering a new user name and password in the Login window. If you
log in with the credentials of a user with administrator privileges (SkyVault uses
admin as the default user name and password), you can use the
Administration Console to create additional users and assign them passwords.
In this out-of-the-box set up, you can manage the user base and their passwords manually from within SkyVault, and unauthenticated users still have limited access as the ‘guest’ user.
From here, there are a number of common customizations you might want to make to scale up to the needs of a larger enterprise. For example, you might want to:
- Disable unauthenticated guest access
- Enable automatic sign-on using operating system credentials or a Single Sign-On (SSO) server to remove the need for a Login page
- Delegate authentication responsibility to a central directory server to remove the need to set up users manually in the Administration Console