Guest User!

You are not Sophos Staff.

Thread Info
  • State Verified Answer
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 4 replies
  • Subscribers 27 subscribers
  • Views 3770 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Suggested
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

How to protect the build in admin account ?

KoenT

Hello,

Seems it is not possible to use OTP with the built in admin account.  What is a sound strategy to protect the built-in admin account, other than giving it a very strong password and not using it unless absolutely necessary please ?

Thanks ! 



This thread was automatically locked due to age.
Parents
  • +1

    Koen,

    AFAIK you cannot enable the OTP on admin because the OTP service starts after the O.S and so it will not simply work. To enable it, Sophos has to change a lot of configuration inside the Kernel.

    You can raise a feature request on ideas.sophos.com for that.

    The other option as suggested, is to restrict the access from one ip or use a really strong password for admin.

    Regards,

  • 0 in reply to lferrara

    Thanks guys.

    Follow up question :  Is there a document that describes how to configure the certificate(s) please ? I use putty with certificates on a most systems so that is not the problem. It is just how / where to transfer the keys.

  • 0 in reply to KoenT

    KoenT,

    Open a new thread please.

    One thread, one question. In this way other users can find the same question easily.

    Regards

Reply Children
No Data