Nortel Networks 4050 manual Changing a user’s group assignment, User# edit admin

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 365

Changing a user’s group assignment

Only users who are members of the admin group can remove other users from a group. All users can add an existing user to a group, but only to a group in which the “granting” user is already a member. The admin user, who by default is a member of all three groups (admin, oper, and certadmin) can therefore add users to any of these groups.

1Log on to the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster.

In this example the cert_admin user, who is a member of the certadmin group, will add the admin user to the certadmin group. The example assumes that the admin user previously removed himself or herself from the certadmin group, in order to fully separate the Administrator user role from the Certificate Administrator user role.

login: cert_admin

Password: (cert_admin user password)

2Access the User Menu.

>>Main# /cfg/sys/user

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[User Menu]	- Change own password
passwd
list	- List all users
del	- Delete a user
add	- Add a new user
edit	- Edit a user
caphrase	- Certadmin export passphrase
>> User#

3Assign the admin user certadmin user rights by adding the admin user to the certadmin group.

>>User# edit admin

>>User admin# groups/add

Enter group name: certadmin

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