Nortel Networks 4050 manual Managing user groups using the CLI, Cfg/sys/user/edit username

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 359

To set or change the login password for a specified user and to view and manage group assignments, access the User <username> menu by using the following command:

/cfg/sys/user/edit <username>

The User <username> menu displays.

The User <username> menu includes the following options:

/cfg/sys/user/edit <username> followed by:

password <own	Sets the login password for the specified user.
password> <user	Passwords can contain spaces and are case sensitive.
password> <confirm
user password>
groups	Accesses the Groups menu, in order to manage user
	group assignments (see “Managing user groups using
	the CLI” on page 359).
cur	Displays the current group settings for the specified
	user.

Managing user groups using the CLI

All users must belong to at least one group. Only an administrator user can add a new user account to the system, but any user can grant an existing user membership in a group to which the granting user belongs.

By default, the administrator user is a member of all three built-in groups (admin, oper, certadmin) and can therefore add a new user to any of these groups. However, a certificate administrator, who is a member of the certadmin group only, can add an existing user to the certadmin group only.

If a user belongs to only one group and you want to change the user’s group membership, add the user to the new group first, and then remove the user from the old one.

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