Authorization

The CIM Object Manager creates two user accounts:

• wbemadmin - The administrative account used to access LDAP schema in the CIM Object Manager Repository. The wbemadmin account is created and its password is set during installation.

• guest - The default account used when no user name is specified during login.

Once the CIM Object Manager has authenticated the user's identity, that identity can be used to verify whether the user should be allowed to execute the application or any of its tasks. The CIM Object Manager supports capability-based authorization, which allows an administrator to assign read and write access to specific users. These authorizations are added to existing Solaris user accounts.

We do not recommend logging in as root because successful login to the root account depends on how name services (for example, DNS, NIS, or NIS+) are set up on your system.