Administrator Guide

Creating a New User Role
Instead of using the system defined user roles, you can create a new user role that best matches your organization. When you
create a new user role, you can first inherit permissions from one of the system defined roles. Otherwise you would have to
create a user role’s command permissions from scratch. You then restrict commands or add commands to that role. For more
information about this topic, see Modifying Command Permissions for Roles.
NOTE: You can change user role permissions on system pre-defined user roles or user-defined user roles.
Important Points to Remember
Consider the following when creating a user role:
● Only the system administrator and user-defined roles inherited from the system administrator can create roles and user
names. Only the system administrator, security administrator, and roles inherited from these can use the "role" command to
modify command permissions. The security administrator and roles inherited by security administrator can only modify
permissions for commands they already have access to.
● Make sure you select the correct role you want to inherit.
● If you inherit a user role, you cannot modify or delete the inheritance. If you want to change or remove the inheritance,
delete the user role and create it again. If the user role is in use, you cannot delete the user role.
1. Create a new user role
CONFIGURATION mode
userrole name [inherit existing-role-name]
2. Verify that the new user role has inherited the security administrator permissions.
Dell(conf)#do show userroles
EXEC Privilege mode
3. After you create a user role, configure permissions for the new user role. See Modifying Command Permissions for Roles.
Example of Creating a User Role
The configuration in the following example creates a new user role, myrole, which inherits the security administrator (secadmin)
permissions.
Create a new user role, myrole and inherit security administrator permissions.
Dell(conf)#userrole myrole inherit secadmin
Verify that the user role, myrole, has inherited the security administrator permissions. The output highlighted in bold indicates
that the user role has successfully inherited the security administrator permissions.
Dell(conf)#do show userroles
************* Mon Apr 28 14:46:25 PDT 2014 **************
Authorization Mode: role or privilege
Role Inheritance Modes
netoperator
netadmin Exec Config Interface Router IP Route-map Protocol MAC
secadmin Exec Config Line
sysadmin Exec Config Interface Line Router IP Route-map Protocol MAC.
myrole secadmin Exec Config Line
Modifying Command Permissions for Roles
You can modify (add or delete) command permissions for newly created user roles and system defined roles using the role
mode { { { addrole | deleterole } role-name } | reset } command command in Configuration mode.
NOTE: You cannot modify system administrator command permissions.
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