
CHAPTER 1
Planning Your Configuration
Before initializing your HSM, we suggest taking a moment to consider the following available features and options.
Some would be inconvenient to change after your HSM is in service:
•"Roles" on page 10
•"Crypto Officer & Crypto User" on page 12
•"Domain Planning" on page 15
•"Luna PED Considerations" on page 1
•"Luna PED Planning" on page 20
Roles
Luna HSM products offer multiple identities, some mandatory, some optional, that you can invoke in different ways to
map to roles and functions in your organization. The following topics offer some aspects that you might wish to consider
before committing to an HSM configuration.
Named Administrative Users and Their Assigned Roles
By default, the appliance has
•one 'admin' user, with role "admin", always enabled, default password "PASSWORD"
•one 'operator' user, with role "operator", disabled until you enable, default password "PASSWORD"
•one 'monitor' user, with role "monitor", disabled until you enable, default password "PASSWORD"
Those three "built-in" accounts can be neither created nor destroyed, but 'admin' can enable or disable the other two as
needed.
You can leave that arrangement as-is, or you can create additional users with names of your own choice, and assign
them any of the roles (and the powers that go with those roles). The default password of any created user is
"PASSWORD" (yes, all uppercase).
Thus, you could choose to have:
•multiple admin-level users, each with a different name,
•multiple operator-level users (or none, if you prefer), again each with a different name, and
•multiple monitor-level users (or none, if you prefer), each with a different name.
Administrative users' names can be a single character or as many as 128 characters, chosen from letters a-z, or A-Z,
numbers 0-9, the dash, the dot, or the underscore. No spaces.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-._
As with any secure system, no two users (regardless of role) can have the same name.
Luna SA Configuration Guide
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