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Admin Management ​

The Admin Management page allows you to manage all administrator accounts within the AdminBolt panel. You can view existing admin users, create new ones, update their credentials, and change their passwords.

Admin Management Overview

Overview ​

URL: /admin/admin-management

This page lists all users with administrative privileges. It includes tools to create new admins, edit their information, and reset their passwords.

Displayed Columns ​

  • Username - Login username
  • Name - Administrator’s full name
  • Email - Contact email address
  • Actions - Edit, Change Password, Delete

Panel-owned admin credentials ​

Since 1.6.0 admin accounts are owned by the panel and have their own passwords, kept separate from the server's system accounts. Changing an admin password here changes the panel credential only, and no longer touches any Linux account.

What this means in practice:

  • On an existing install, everyone keeps signing in with the password they use today. The root admin, whose password used to mirror the Linux root account, is additionally asked to set a panel password on its next sign-in, so the panel credential stops being the operating system password. Other admin accounts are not prompted. After the switch the panel credential and the operating system credential are independent, and rotating one does not rotate the other.
  • On a fresh install, the first sign-in goes through the single-use link the installer prints, which forces a password to be set.
  • No username is special anymore. Any admin row can have its password changed and can be deleted, except that the panel refuses to delete the last remaining admin, since nobody could sign in afterwards.

Create New Admin ​

Clicking the Create Admin button opens a modal for creating a new administrator account.

Create Admin Modal

Fields: ​

  • Username - Required unique login identifier
  • Name - Required full name of the administrator
  • Email - Optional email address
  • Password - Secure login password (required)
  • Confirm Password - Must match the password

A Generate Password button is available next to the password fields to auto-generate a strong password.

Edit Admin ​

The Edit action allows you to update an existing administrator’s basic information.

Edit Admin Modal

Editable fields:

  • Username
  • Name
  • Email

Change Password ​

Each admin has a Change Password button available in the action column.

Change Admin Password Modal

Fields:

  • New Password - Required new secure password
  • Confirm Password - Must match the new password

A Generate Password button is available next to the password fields to auto-generate a strong password.

Your own sessions and login history ​

Your own active sessions and recent login attempts are on the Edit Profile page (/admin/edit-profile), not here: the sections are per signed-in user rather than per admin row.

Active sessions on the admin profile page

  • Active Sessions lists each signed-in device with its IP address, browser, and last activity, marking the one you are using. Revoke ends one; Log out all other sessions ends every other one, including remembered logins.
  • Login History lists the 20 most recent attempts with date, IP address, device, and whether they succeeded.

How long attempts are kept at all is set in Panel Settings > Security and defaults to 90 days. That setting governs what is stored, not how many rows the page shows.

The search field supports filtering across the following columns:

  • Username
  • Name
  • Email

This allows quick access to specific admin users by any of these attributes.

Pagination ​

You can choose how many records to display per page using the pagination control:

  • 5
  • 10
  • 25
  • 50
  • All