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Enterprise and Professional can use various methods for authentication. However, regardless of authentication, your user must exist within Open-AudIT in order to receive authorisation. The simplest method is to simple create your user in the Open-AudIT web GUI and ensure "openaudit" is listed as an acceptable method in /omk/conf/opCommon.nmis. The installer will do this for you. See below (Open-AudIT web logon).
The below is only relevant if you wish to use htpasswd based authentication. You will still require Open-AudIT to contain the user, this will be used for authorisation.
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admin : password (default user)nmis : nm1888 (for completeness with
Open-AudIT Enterprise
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Open-AudIT Enterprise user
This user is used by Open-AudIT Enterprise to log on to Open-AudIT and generate scheduled reports, retrieve dashboard data, etc. This user will not work in the web interface of Open-AudIT Enterprise. This user should have at least 'view' access on the All Devices Group. It does not need admin or sam (Software Asset Management) access, but for completeness - using Discovery, setting config values and so on, it should be an Admin level user within Open-AudIT.
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NOTE - If you change this key after you have created some credentials, those credentials will be unusable (they will not be able to be decrypted). You should first export them, delete them, change the encryption key, then import them.