mco-auth-sslhttps.md
Management Console (MC) uses a combination of OAuth (Open Authorization), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and locally-encrypted passwords to secure HTTPS requests between a user's browser and MC, and between MC and the agents. Authentication occurs through MC and between agents within the cluster. Agents also authenticate and authorize jobs.
The MC configuration process sets up SSL automatically, but you must have the openssl package installed on your Linux environment first.