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Chapter 2 Installation, Configuration and Management
NetScaler 9000 Series Installation and Configuration Guide - Volume 1 2-63
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z The nsroot user's default password is nsroot. It is strongly advised that
you change your NetScaler's nsroot password immediately on powering it
up for the first time.
In addition to the nsroot user, the NetScaler system allows you to create
system users and groups to organize these users in to. The remainder of
section 2.6.4 discusses managing these users and groups. Before proceeding
on, it is important to first explain the system global scope. System global is
the entity representation for the system level scope. This entity is available for
the purpose of setting NetScaler system level parameters and policies.
Excluding nsroot, all of the NetScaler system users and groups are affected by
system global applied policies and parameters.
2.6.4.1 Creating System Users and Groups
To create users and groups, you will use the add action. The example here
shows this usage. The first string after user is the desired username and the
string following that is the user’s password.
> add system user johnd johnd4689
When you enter the password as shown here it will be displayed in clear text.
However, system user passwords are stored on the NetScaler in an encrypted
format.
To create a system group you will use a similar add action.
> add system group nocusers
To add system users to system groups, you will use the bind action as
illustrated here.
> bind system group nocusers -username johnd
It is allowable to bind users into more than one group. Binding your system
users into multiple groups will allow more flexibility when applying
command policies, which are discussed a bit later in this chapter. Once system
users and groups are created, you can view details about them with the show
action.
> show system users
2 Configured system users:
1) User name: nsroot
2) User name: johnd