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Managing system users and groups
This chapter includes the following topics:
Topic
“User rights and group membership” (page 211)
“Managing system users and groups” (page 212)
“Roadmap of system user management commands” (page 212)
“Managing user accounts and passwords” (page 213)
“Managing user settings” (page 216)
“Managing user groups” (page 217)
“CLI configuration examples” (page 218)
User rights and group membership
There are three groups of system users who routinely access the system
for configuration and management:
• admin (administrator)
•
certadmin (certificate administrator)
•
oper (operator)
ATTENTION
There are two additional types of users with specialized functions: boot and root.
For more information, see
“Accessing the Nortel SNAS cluster” (page 381) .
Group membership dictates user rights, as shown in Table 45 "Group
membership and user rights" (page 212) . When a user is a member of
more than one group, user rights accumulate. The admin user, who by
default is a member of all three groups, therefore has the same user rights
as granted to members in the certadmin and oper group, in addition to the
specific user rights granted by the admin group membership. The most
permissive user rights become the effective user rights when a user is a
member of more than one group. For more information about default user
groups and related access levels, see
“Accessing the Nortel SNAS cluster”
(page 381) .
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Using the Command Line Interface
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