Add a User Account

Each person must have a user account to access and manage an array group. Only users with Administrator permission can add user accounts. The Administrator controls a user's access to the group by assigning a specific role to each user.

At a minimum, each user account must have a:
  • username
  • full name
  • role
Optional. A user account can also have a:
  • description
  • email address
  • inactivity timeout interval

You can include these options when you create the user account or you can add them later.

  1. At the command prompt, type the command to add a user account.
    useradmin --add {username} --description {description text} --full_name {full name} --email_addr {valid email address} --role {administrator | poweruser | operator | guest} --inactivity_timeout {minutes}
    • The username must be alphanumeric, 1 to 32 characters, must start with a letter, no spaces. The username is required for user login.
    • (Optional) The description can have from 1 to 255 characters. No hard returns.
    • The full name must be alphanumeric, 1 to 64 characters, must start with a letter, can use dashes, and apostrophes. Underscores are not allowed.

      If the full name has a space, then you must put quotation marks around the full name, for example, "Hunter Smith" Do not use periods.

    • (Optional) An inactivity timeout is specified in minutes. It cannot exceed the inactivity timeout set for the group.
  2. At the command prompt, enter a new password.
    {password}

    The password must be comprised of alphanumeric characters with a length of 8 to 512 characters. Do not use [ ] & ; ` or spaces. The password is required for user login.

  3. Retype the new password.
    {password}

Adding a user account for Hunter Smith with operator access:

useradmin --add Hunter --description
This_user_has_operator_access_only.
--full_name "Hunter Smith"
--email_addr hsmith@company.com
--role operator
--inactivity_timeout 30