Fortigate Local user and the Administrator User

[leo82]

I'd like to know the difference between the Fortigate Local user and the Administrator User.

Is there any Topic or technical documentation that addresses this?

[Toshi_Esumi · Accepted solution]

Those are two different facet of any users.

The opposite of Local users are Remote users, who are authenticated by a remote authenticator over LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, etc. Local users are authenticated by the FortiGate(FGT) itself based on the user configuration.

Administrator users are configured under System->Administrator, and who accesses the FGT and configure it and troubleshoot issues releated to the FGT. Non Administrators are regular/general users who send/receive traffic through the FGT but don't have admin access to it.

Toshi

[Mohamed_Gaber]

Excellent reply