User Guide

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 365

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide

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.

1 Log 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.

2 Access the User Menu.

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

certadmin group.

Password: (cert_admin user password)

>> 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#

edit admin

>> User admin# groups/add

Enter group name: certadmin