Managing Users

Creating and Updating Users

Users can be managed by a superuser via the Hub’s Web UI or API.

Creating a user is as simple as clicking Users -> Add user and completing the form for selecting a username/password.

A user can optionally provide access to the device they use to connect to the Hub by enabling the “Shared” option under Device Settings of their user profile. All user’s obtain a static IP address on the overlay network.

Rules and Policies are used to govern which connected systems a user is permitted to connect to, and similarly which systems they will see when they list Servers in the Web UI or API. Users can only be specified as sources for Rules and Policies, not targets. Note that enabling the share device option for a user will allow any connected system to attempt to connect to the user’s device, which will be governed by the device’s OS (eg. packet filter, firewall, etc)

Unlike Servers, Users do not obtain DNS names for their devices, but can share their assigned overlay IP address if they wish others to connect to their device if sharing is enabled.

Connecting as a User

The OpenVPN Client nav menu option in the Hub’s Web UI describes details on how to setup OpenVPN on various systems and devices and conencting to the Hub using your User account.

User Groups

Users can be grouped into User Groups, which can be specified as sources in Rules. See the documentation about Rules and Policies for further info.