About multiple administrative users

What is an administrative user?

An administrative user is a named account that exists on a filer. Administrative users have the same privileges as root, but can have a different password than root.

Multiple administrative users increase filer security

Adding multiple administrative users to a filer means you no longer need to share the root password. Instead, administrative users access the filer, either locally or remotely, with a unique login name and password. The filer records each user name at login with a syslog message in /etc/messages, to enable auditing.

Command to use to create administrative users

Use the useradd option of the useradmin command to create multiple administrative users on a filer.

Ways to access the filer using an administrative login name

Using an administrative login name, you can access a filer through any of the following tools:

• Filer console
• telnet
• rsh

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