Admin Profiles - Fortinet FortiGate Series Administration Manual

Admin profiles

Using trusted hosts
Admin profiles
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4 Configure additional features as required. For more information, see
administrator account" on page
5 Select OK.
Setting trusted hosts for all of your administrators increases the security of your network
by further restricting administrative access. In addition to knowing the password, an
administrator must connect only through the subnet or subnets you specify. You can even
restrict an administrator to a single IP address if you define only one trusted host IP
address with a netmask of 255.255.255.255.
When you set trusted hosts for all administrators, the FortiGate unit does not respond to
administrative access attempts from any other hosts. This provides the highest security. If
you leave even one administrator unrestricted, the unit accepts administrative access
attempts on any interface that has administrative access enabled, potentially exposing the
unit to attempts to gain unauthorized access.
The trusted hosts you define apply both to the web-based manager and to the CLI when
accessed through Telnet or SSH. CLI access through the console connector is not
affected.
The trusted host addresses all default to 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 for IPv4, ::/0 for IPv6. If you set
one of the zero addresses to a non-zero address, the other zero addresses will be
ignored. The only way to use a wildcard entry is to leave the trusted hosts at
0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 or ::0. However, this configuration is less secure.
Each administrator account belongs to an admin profile. The admin profile separates
FortiGate features into access control categories for which an administrator with
read/write access can enable none (deny), read only, or read/write access.
The following table lists the web-based manager pages to which each category provides
access:
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