Administrators

Simscope users with Administrator privileges can access the Admin section.

By default Simscope comes with a dedicated admin user, but any other user can be promoted to Administrator.

Simscope Admin Area

To access the admin area, click the Lock icon in the top-right corner.

Administrator extra privileges

Note that Administrators can access all Admin area, including:

• Configuration
• Server Reload
• Warning/Error log viewing
• SQL debug
• Database pruning
• Email outbox
• User management
  • Issue API tokens

admin user account

Simscope has a builtin Administrator user account named admin, which can log in directly to Simscope, without an external authentication provider.

On the first launch of Simscope, the admin account will get a random auto-generated password, printed to the console terminal, similar to this:

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admin account issued new password: ilG/LDrE

        → Go to the [Change Password] page in your browser to change this password.
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Resetting the admin password

If you forget the Simscope admin account password, you can reset it by:

1. Delete the file (inside your database directory) $SIMSCOPE_DB/simscope-admin.auth
2. Restart Simscope and look on the console for the admin account issued new password message on the terminal.

Simscope will automatically generate a new simscope-admin.auth file on the next startup, with a random password.

• This password can be changed via the Change Password link at the bottom of any web page.

Change Simscope User Role (administrator privileges, etc)

To change a user to an Administrator role (or any other User Role):

1. Click the Admin Lock in the top-right corner.
2. Click User Accounts.
3. Find the user and click the Edit button.
4. Under the User Role box, change the user to Administrator.
5. Click Save.