diff --git a/system-admin/accounts-access-sp-concept.adoc b/system-admin/accounts-access-sp-concept.adoc index 15b7b4bb9f5..b36923d307d 100644 --- a/system-admin/accounts-access-sp-concept.adoc +++ b/system-admin/accounts-access-sp-concept.adoc @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ permalink: system-admin/accounts-access-sp-concept.html sidebar: sidebar keywords: account, access, sp, cluster, user, cli, node -summary: "When you try to access the SP, you are prompted for credential. Cluster user accounts that are created with the service-processor application type have access to the SP CLI on any node of the cluster. SP user accounts are managed from ONTAP and authenticated by password. Beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1, SP user accounts must have the admin role." +summary: "When you try to access the SP, you are prompted for credential. Cluster user accounts that are created with the service-processor application type have access to the SP CLI on any node of the cluster. SP user accounts are managed from ONTAP and authenticated by password. Beginning with ONTAP 9.15.1, SP user accounts can optionally use two-factor authentication with a public key as the second authentication method. Beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1, SP user accounts must have the admin role." --- = Access the ONTAP Service Processor using a cluster user account :icons: font :imagesdir: ../media/ [.lead] -When you try to access the SP, you are prompted for credential. Cluster user accounts that are created with the `service-processor` application type have access to the SP CLI on any node of the cluster. SP user accounts are managed from ONTAP and authenticated by password. Beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1, SP user accounts must have the `admin` role. +When you try to access the SP, you are prompted for credential. Cluster user accounts that are created with the `service-processor` application type have access to the SP CLI on any node of the cluster. SP user accounts are managed from ONTAP and authenticated by password. Beginning with ONTAP 9.15.1, SP user accounts can optionally use two-factor authentication with a public key as the second authentication method. Beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1, SP user accounts must have the `admin` role. -User accounts for accessing the SP are managed from ONTAP instead of the SP CLI. A cluster user account can access the SP if it is created with the `-application` parameter of the `security login create` command set to `service-processor` and the `-authmethod` parameter set to `password`. The SP supports only password authentication. +User accounts for accessing the SP are managed from ONTAP instead of the SP CLI. A cluster user account can access the SP if it is created with the `-application` parameter of the `security login create` command set to `service-processor` and the `-authmethod` parameter set to `password`. Beginning with ONTAP 9.15.1, you can optionally configure two-factor authentication for an SP account by setting the second authentication method to `publickey` with the `security login modify` command and then associating the public key with the `security login publickey create` command. You must specify the `-role` parameter when creating an SP user account. @@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ ONTAP prevents you from creating user accounts with names that are reserved for You can display current SP user accounts by using the `-application service-processor` parameter of the `security login show` command. -Learn more about `security login show` in the link:https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-cli/security-login-show.html[ONTAP command reference^]. +Learn more about link:https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-cli/security-login-modify.html[`security login modify`^], link:https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-cli/security-login-publickey-create.html[`security login publickey create`^], and link:https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-cli/security-login-show.html[`security login show`^] in the ONTAP command reference. +// 2026 June 05, update to include optional 2FA // 2025 June 18, ONTAPDOC-2960 // 2022-06-20, BURT 1387627