To Add an XSCF User Account

When you add a new user account, the account has no password, and cannot be used for logging in until the password is set or Secure Shell public key authentication is enabled for the user.

1.Log in to the XSCF console with useradm privileges.

2.Type the adduser command:

XSCF> adduser user

where user is the user name you want to add. (See the adduser(8) man page for rules about the user name.) If you do not specify a User ID (UID) number with the -u UID option, one is automatically assigned, starting from 100.

3. Verify that the operation succeeded by typing the showuser command.

To Create a Password for an XSCF User

Any XSCF user can set his or her own password. Only a user with useradm privileges can set another user’s password.

1.Log in to the XSCF console with useradm privileges.

2.Type the password command:

XSCF> password

Please enter your password:

See the password(8) man page for rules about passwords. When typed without an argument, password sets the current user’s password. To set someone else’s password, include that person’s user name, for example:

XSCF> password user

Please enter your password:

where user is the user name you want to set the password for. You are prompted to enter, and then reenter, the password.

To Assign Privileges to an XSCF User

1. Log in to the XSCF console with useradm privileges.

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