User Guide

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 359
Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide
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:
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.
/cfg/sys/user/edit <username>
followed by:
password <own
password> <user
password> <confirm
user password>
Sets the login password for the specified user.
Passwords can contain spaces and are case sensitive.
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.