Setting up user accounts

To use the Web Administration tool to set up features on Avaya IR, you can use the root login and password, or you can set up one or more additional user accounts with the correct administrative privileges.

Setting up user accounts for administering Avaya IR includes:

1. Establishing the user account with admintool
2. Assigning administration privileges with the assign_permissions command.

To establish user accounts:

1. Log in as root, if necessary.
2. At the command prompt, type admintool & and press Enter.

The Admintool interface starts, as shown in the following figure.



3. On the Edit menu, choose Add.

The system displays the Add User window.

4. Complete the Add User window with information about the new user and click OK.

Consider the following points when entering data about the new user:

• User ID numbers must be a whole number less than or equal to 2147483647. They are required for both regular user accounts and special system accounts. Although User ID numbers 0 through 99 are reserved, you can add a user with one of these numbers. However, do not use them for regular user accounts. By definition, root always has User ID 0, daemon has User ID 1, and pseudo-user bin has User ID 2.
• When adding a user account, you must assign a primary group for a user or accept the default group, staff (group 10). The primary group should already exist (if it does not exist, specify the group by a GID number).

For more information, see the Sun Solaris 8 System Administration Guide, Volume 1.

A user account other than root must me set up with an Avaya IR privilege of Administration or Operations in order to log in to Web Administration. The Operations privilege allows access to fewer Web Administration menu items than the Administration privilege. For example, a user with an Operations privilege cannot administer Backup and Restore.

To assign administrative privileges:

1. At the command prompt, type assign_permissions username Administration where username is the user you added using the admintool. Press Enter.

The system displays:

Assigning VIS permissions: Administration
for user login: username

Confirm (Y/N)

2. Type y and press Enter.

The system displays:

login: username has been assigned VIS permissions level: Administration

You can now access the Web Administration interface using the new user name.

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