Hudu: users, security groups and locking down your instance
For Hudu admins: user roles and types, security groups (allow and deny lists, conflicts, core tools, layouts and item-level restrictions), offboarding by archiving, licensing and Limited Mode, and the instance's security settings (2FA, SSO, IP access control, idle timeout), plus the activity logs and lockout steps the help center documents.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Hudu
Skills you'll practise
- Choose the right Hudu role and user type for a person, and explain what admins can't be restricted by
- Design security groups with allow or deny lists and predict access when groups conflict
- Restrict individual items and KB folders and check who can see an item
- Offboard users by archiving, and explain Limited Mode and how to clear it
- Configure 2FA, SSO and IP access control, and troubleshoot code and lockout problems
Course outline
- 1.Hudu: users, groups and instance securityVideo · 2 min
- 2.Roles, user types and security groupsLesson · 18 min
- 3.Users over their lifetimeLesson · 16 min
- 4.Securing the instanceLesson · 16 min
- 5.Hudu: users, security groups and locking down your instance: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Hudu help: User Management (user types and roles, inviting, impersonating, archiving, owner account)
- Hudu help: Groups & Restrictions (allow and deny lists, conflicts, login schedules, core tools, asset layouts, item and KB folder restrictions)
- Hudu help: Password Folders (global and client folders, all users vs selected groups)
- Hudu help: Admin Security Settings (2FA, SAML/SSO, IP access control, idle timeout, external sharing)
- Hudu help: IP Access Control
- Hudu help: MFA: App-Based (super admin setup, enforcing for all users, time drift)
- Hudu help: Understanding SAML/SSO (identity provider, matching by email address)
- Hudu help: Audit Monitoring (immutable activity logs, attribution of API keys, integrations, imports and jobs)
- Hudu help: Limited Mode (causes and how to get out of it)
- Hudu help: Trouble Accessing Hudu or Hudu HQ?
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