PREPARING FOR FIERY CONTROLLER SETUP 16
User authentication
The term “user authentication” means the Fiery Controller verifies that the user who is
sending a job belongs to a group, and the group has printing privileges (“Print in B&W” or
“Print in Color and B&W”).
By default, the Fiery Controller does not enforce user authentication. That is, even if you
assign passwords to users and assign the users to groups, no authentication occurs unless you
clear the “Allow users to print without authentication” check box (in Configure > Users and
Groups). If this option is selected, anyone can print to the Fiery Controller.
If you require users to specify their user name and password (that is, you have cleared the
“Allow users to print without authentication” check box), users must type this information in
the printer driver when they print. Users must specify their user name and password if they
create files from the printer driver for printing later (such as an e-mail attachment that will be
sent to the Fiery Controller).
Because jobs that are sent through FTP do not require a printer driver, you can specify that
FTP jobs are authenticated (see Configure > Network > Services > FTP > Require Password
for Printing).
Passwords
When you create a new user in Configure > Users and Groups, you assign a password to the
user. In other areas of the system, you can also set passwords for these areas:
• Default admin user in Administrators group
• Default operator user in Operators group
By default, the Administrator password is set on the Fiery Controller. Change the
Administrator password periodically to protect the Fiery Controller from accidental or
malicious changes to Setup. For more information, see “Setting passwords” on page 39.
Users in the Administrators and Operators groups have privileges in addition to the explicit
ones that you set when you create groups. Examples of these privileges are provided in the
following sections.
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