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Getting Started > Logging on to the TRITON console > Logging on with certificate authentication
Logging on with certificate authentication
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If you are using certificate authentication, you do not usually see the logon page. Instead, when you access the TRITON console URL:
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The console detects whether a client certificate is installed.
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You provide your two-factor authentication credentials as defined by your organization.
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After successful authentication, the TRITON console receives the client certificate and checks that it matches the signature in the uploaded root CA certificates.
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If the signature matches, the TRITON console checks for a full match with the certificates that you have either uploaded to the TRITON console, or imported from your user directory.
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If a match is found, you are logged on to the console.
If no certificate match is found, the logon process depends on the fallback options that have been set up:
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Attribute matching checks if the client certificate contains a property matching a specific LDAP attribute in your user directory.
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Password authentication can be enabled in case certificate matching and attribute matching fails.
If neither of these options is available, you cannot log on without a matching certificate.
If all of your administrator accounts are configured to use certificate authentication, and you encounter an issue where your administrators do not have client certificates or certificate matching is failing, you can still log on to the TRITON console as follows:
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Open a browser on the TRITON Management Server machine. You can access the machine using a Remote Desktop Connection.
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Go to the URL https://127.0.0.1:9443/triton (or https://localhost:9443/triton).
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Log on using the admin user name and password.
You can then configure your certificate authentication options to provide a fallback for your other administrators. See Configuring two-factor authentication.

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