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14.3 Adding and Removing Users
First, determine the total number of existing Users (if you have no existing Users you can assume this is
0):
# config -g config.users.total
This command should display config.users.total 1. Note that if you see config.users.total this means you
have 0 Users configured.
Your new User will be the existing total plus 1. If the previous command gave you 0, then you start with
user number 1. If you already have 1 user your new user will be number 2, etc.
To add a user (with Username=John, Password=secret and Description =mySecondUser) issue the
commands:
# config -s config.users.total=2 (assuming we already have 1 user configured)
# config -s config.users.user2.username=John
# config -s config.users.user2.description=mySecondUser
# config -P config.users.user2.password
NOTE: The -P parameter will prompt the user for a password, and encrypt it. You can encrypt the value
of any config element using the -P parameter, but only encrypted user passwords and system passwords
are supported. If any other element value were to be encrypted, the value will become inaccessible and
will have to be reset.
To add this user to specific groups (admin/users):
# config -s config.users.user2.groups.group1='groupname'
# config -s config.users.user2.groups.group2='groupname2'
etc...
To give this user access to a specific port:
# config -s config.users.user2.port1=on
# config -s config.users.user2.port2=on
# config -s config.users.user2.port5=on
etc...
To remove port access:
# config -s config.users.user2.port1='' (the value is left blank)
or simply:
# config -d config.users.user2.port1
The port number can be anything from 1 to 48, depending on the available ports on the specific
console server.
For example, assume we have an RPC device connected to port 1 on the console server and the RPC is
configured. To give this user access to RPC outlet number 3 on the RPC device, run the 2 commands
below:
# config -s config.ports.port1.power.outlet3.users.user2=John
# config -s config.ports.port1.power.outlet3.users.total=2 (total number of users that have
access to this outlet)
If more users are given access to this power outlet, then increment the
'config.ports.port1.power.outlet3.users.total' element accordingly.
To give this user access to network host 5 (assuming the host is configured):
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