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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 3-7
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Creating and Maintaining User-Defined Accounts
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To create a user-defined account
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the following command:
3. In response to the prompt, enter a password for the account.
The password is not displayed when you enter it on the command line.
Accounts with the admin role can create accounts. Accounts with the user role cannot.
To delete a user-defined account
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the following command:
3. At the prompt for confirmation, enter y.
Only accounts with the admin role can delete user-defined accounts on the logical switch.
userConfig --add username -r rolename [-d description]
username Specifies the account name, which must begin with an alphabetic character.
The name can be from 8 to 40 characters long. It is case-sensitive and can
contain alphabetic and numeric characters, the dot (.) and the underscore ( _ ).
It must be different than all other account names on the logical switch.
-r rolename Specifies the role: either admin, switchAdmin, or user in nonsecure mode;
admin, user, or nonfcsadmin in secure mode.
-d description Optionally, adds a description to the account. The description field can be up to
40 printable ASCII characters long. The following characters are not allowed:
asterisk (‘), quotation mark (“), exclamation point (!), semicolon (;), and
colon (:).
userConfig --delete username
username Specifies the account name. You cannot delete the default accounts. An
account cannot delete itself. All active CLI sessions for the deleted account are
logged out.