You can peruse the system's configuration as an unprivileged user, but
modifying it might require additional privileges. This is the
login dialog. Though it's not yet explicitly
supported, all panels are capable of configuring remote systems running
Visual Panels (hence the host field).
If you have authenticated as another user or logged into another
machine in one panel, we permit you to select that user or machine
in another without reauthenticating. The option to use a particular
user/machine disappears when the last window using that user/machine
is closed.