// Text excerpt about installing fail2ban
// consumer postinstallation-tasks.adoc (main), hetzner-dc.adoc
//
Open Cockpit in your desktop's browser
`https://host.example.com:9090`. Accept the security warning of your browser. Cockpit uses a self signed certificate.

If you disabled root access during installation (recommended), logging in as root is not possible.

Login with your administrative user account. At the top you will see a warning that the Web Console is running with limited permissions. Enable administrator access so that all administrative privileges are automatically available after login.