Creating Users & Groups

With the local user manager of OPNsense one can add users and groups and define the privileges for granting access to certain parts of the GUI (Web Configurator).

Adding Users

To add a new user go to System->Access->Users and click on the + sign at the bottom right corner of the form.

Disabled	Unchecked	Can be used to (temporarily) disable an account
Username	John	A unique username
Password	secret	A strong password
Full name	John Doe	Optional, Full username
Expiration date		Optional, if account should expire enter as mm/dd/yyy
Group Membership		Optional, select one or more groups
Certificate		Optional, check if a user certificate should be created
OTP seed		Optional, enter or generate a OTP seed (base32)
Authorized keys		Optional, paste ssh key for ssh console access
IPsec Pre-Shared Key		Optional, IPsec PSK

Creating Groups

Go to System->Access->Groups and click on the + sign in the lower right corner of the form.

Enter a Group name* and a Description and add users to the group.

Add privileges to a group

After creating a group the privileges can be added by editing the group. Go to System->Access-Groups and click on the edit symbol (pencil) right next to the group you like to change.

To assign privileges, just click on the pencil icon on the right of Assigned Privileges a form will be shown where each page can be either selected or deselected; here it’s also possible to allow a user shell account access (console).

The search bottom at the top of this form can be used to quickly find the right page.

After making the right selection click on Save to store the new settings.