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title: Enabling native authentication for the administrative console
description: When the administrative console is protected by native authentication, access is restricted to the local accounts you have defined.
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revdate: July 5, 2022
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# Enabling native authentication for the administrative console

When the administrative console is protected by native authentication, access is restricted to the local accounts you have defined.

## Steps

1. Go to **System > Server** to open the **Administrative Accounts** window.

2. In the `<pf_insall>/pingfederate/bin/run.properties` file, change the value of the `pf.console.authentication` property to `pf.console.authentication=native`

3. Start or restart PingFederate.