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Chapter 3 Enabling Multiple Context Mode
Security Context Overview
Figure 3-5 shows a gateway context with two contexts behind the gateway.
Figure 3-5 Cascading Contexts
Management Access to Security Contexts
The security appliance provides system administrator access in multiple context mode as well as access
for individual context administrators. The following sections describe logging in as a system
administrator or as a a context administrator:
• System Administrator Access, page 3-9
• Context Administrator Access, page 3-10
System Administrator Access
You can access the security appliance as a system administrator in two ways:
• Access the security appliance console.
From the console, you access the system execution space.
• Access the admin context using Telnet, SSH, or ASDM.
See Chapter 40, “Managing System Access,” to enable Telnet, SSH, and SDM access.
As the system administrator, you can access all contexts.
When you change to a context from admin or the system, your username changes to the default
“enable_15” username. If you configured command authorization in that context, you need to either
configure authorization privileges for the “enable_15” user, or you can log in as a different name for
which you provide sufficient privileges in the command authorization configuration for the context. To
log in with a username, enter the login command. For example, you log in to the admin context with the
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