Accounts

In Security Onion, there are two main types of accounts:

• operating system (OS) accounts
• application accounts used when authenticating to Security Onion Console (SOC)

OS accounts are controlled by standard Linux account utilities. SOC accounts are controlled by the so-user command.

• Passwords
  • OS user account
  • OS root account
  • Security Onion Console (SOC)
• MFA
• Adding Accounts
  • OS
  • SOC
• Listing Accounts
  • OS
  • SOC
• Disabling Accounts
  • OS
  • SOC
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Elastic Auth Requirement
  • Default Roles
  • Superusers
  • Adding a User With a Specific Role
  • Modifying User Roles
  • Creating Custom Roles
  • Defining Security Onion Roles