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# 1 Login and configuring user

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#### Overview

In this section, you will learn how to log in and set up a system user
in Zabbix.

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#### Login

Open the Zabbix frontend URL in a browser:
-   For Apache: http://<server_ip_or_name>/zabbix
-   For Nginx: http://<server_ip_or_name>

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/login.png){width="350"}

This is the Zabbix welcome screen. Enter the user name **Admin** with
password **zabbix** to log in as a [Zabbix
superuser](/manual/config/users_and_usergroups/permissions). Access to
all menu sections will be granted.

For security reasons, it is strongly recommended to change the default 
[password](/manual/web_interface/user_profile#user-profile) for the Admin account immediately after the first login.

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##### Persistent login
To stay logged in for up to 30 days, select *Remember for 30 days* before clicking *Sign in*.

Remember for 30 days enabled:

  - Your session remains active for 30 days.
  - [*Auto-logout*](/manual/web_interface/user_profile#user-profile) is overridden, keeping you signed in until the period ends.
  - You will be auto‑logged in on future visits within 30 days without re‑entering credentials.

Remember for 30 days disabled:

  - Any previously enabled auto-login is cleared.
  - Session will expire according to the configured *Auto‑logout* interval.

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##### Protection against brute force attacks

In case of five consecutive failed login attempts, Zabbix interface will
pause for 30 seconds in order to prevent brute force and dictionary
attacks.

The IP address of a failed login attempt will be displayed after a
successful login.

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#### Adding user

To view information about users, go to *Users* > *Users* in the sidebar's vertical menu.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/web_interface/users.png){width="600"}

To add a new user, select *Create user* in the upper-right corner.

In the new user form, make sure to add your user to one of the existing
[user groups](/manual/config/users_and_usergroups/usergroup), for
example 'Zabbix administrators'.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/new_user.png){width="600"}

All mandatory input fields are marked with a red asterisk. For details about input fields on this configuration form, refer to the [User settings](/manual/web_interface/user_profile) page.

By default, new users have no media (notification delivery methods)
defined for them. To create one, go to the *Media* tab and click
*Add*.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/new_media_tab.png){width="600"}

In the pop-up, enter the user's email address.

You can specify a time period when the medium will be active (see [Time
period specification](/manual/appendix/time_period) page for a
description of the format). By default a medium is always active. You
can also customize [trigger severity](/manual/config/triggers/severity)
levels for which the medium will be active, but leave all of them
enabled for now.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/new_media.png){width="600"}

Click *Add* to save the medium, then go to the *Permissions* tab.

Permissions tab has a mandatory field *Role*. The role determines which
frontend elements the user can view and which actions he is allowed to
perform. Click *Select* and select one of the roles from the list. For
example, select *Admin role* to allow access to all Zabbix frontend
sections, except Administration. Later on, you can modify permissions or
create more user roles. Upon selecting a role, permissions will appear
in the same tab:

![user\_permissions.png](../../../../../assets/en/manual/config/user_permissions.png){width="600"}


Click *Add* in the user properties form to save the user. The new user
appears in the userlist.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/userlist2.png){width="600"}

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##### Adding permissions

By default, a new user has no permissions to access hosts and templates. To grant the
user rights, click the group of the user in the *Groups* column (in
this case - 'Zabbix administrators'). In the *User groups* properties form, go
to the *Host permissions* tab to assign permissions to host groups.
Click ![](../../../assets/en/manual/config/add_link.png){class="nozoom"} for the host group selection field to be displayed:

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/group_permissions.png){width="600"}

Then click *Select* next to the field to see the list of the host groups.
This user is to have read-only access to *Linux servers* group,
so mark the appropriate checkbox in the list and click *Select* to confirm your choice.

![](../../../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/add_permissions.png){width="600"}

Click the *Read* button to set the permission level and then *Update* to save the changes made to the user group configuration.

To grant permissions to templates, you will need to switch to the *Template permissions* tab and specify template groups. The steps are identical to assigning permissions to host groups. An overview of templates is available in the [New template](/manual/quickstart/template) section of this Quickstart.

::: noteimportant
In Zabbix, access rights to hosts and templates are assigned to
[user groups](/manual/config/users_and_usergroups/usergroup), not
individual users.
:::

Done! You may try to log in using the credentials of the new user.

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