Setting Up Initial Administrative Access

The AnswerBook2 software comes with access control turned on for performing administrative functions, but with no default administrative user defined. The first time you attempt to access the AnswerBook2 administrative functions, the software informs you that access control is turned on but no user is defined. You can do one of two things at this point:

• Turn off access control.

  To turn off access control, log in as root on the documentation server machine and type the following:

  # /usr/lib/ab2/bin/ab2admin -o auth_off

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  Caution -

  If you turn off access control, any user who can get to your documentation server can modify your documentation server.

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• Define an administrative user and password.

  To define an administrative user, log in as root on the documentation server machine and type the following:

  # /usr/lib/ab2/bin/ab2admin -o add_admin -u admin-id

  Where admin-id is the login ID for administering this documentation server. The admin-id does not have to match the user's system login ID; it is solely a login ID for performing document-related administrative functions on a specific server.

  The software prompts you to enter a password for this user, then re-enter it for verification.