4.9. Root user and appadmin user

The users root and appadmin are system users known in the /etc/passwd file of the underlying Linux operating system. These users can be used to login the Appliance Management UI.

While the user root can be used to login to the machine via console or SSH, the user appadmin is only allowed to login to the Appliance Management UI. Therefore the user root can change the password of the user appadmin but the user appadmin can not change the password of the user root (except he can provide the correct root password). Both the users root and appadmin are allowed to change the passwords of all the LinOTP token administrators.