218 Managing system users and groups

CLI configuration examples

This section includes the following detailed examples:
•“Adding a new user” (page 218)
•“Changing a users group assignment” (page 221)
•“Changing passwords” (page 223)
—“Changing your own password” (page 223)
—“Changing another users password” (page 224)
•“Deleting a user” (page 225)

Adding a new user

To add a new user to the system, you must be a member of the admin
group. By default, only the admin user is a member of the admin group.
In this configuration example, a certificate administrator user is added to
the system, and then assigned to the certadmin group. The certificate
administrator specializes in managing certificates and private keys, without
the possibility to change system parameters or configure virtual SSL
servers. A user who is a member of the certadmin group can therefore
access the Certificate menu (/cfg/cert), but not the SSL Server
1001 menu (/cfg/domain #/server/ssl). On the System menu
(/cfg/sys), the certadmin user has access only to the User submenu
(/cfg/sys/user).
Step Action
1Log on to the Nortel SNAS cluster as the admin user.
login: admin
Password: (admin user password)
2Access the User Menu.
>> Main# /cfg/sys/user
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[User Menu]
passwd - Change own password
list - List all users
del - Delete a user
add - Add a new user
edit - Edit a user
caphrase - Certadmin export passphrase
>> User#
3Add the new user and designate a user name.
Nortel Secure Network Access Switch
Using the Command Line Interface
NN47230-100 03.01 Standard
28 July 2008
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