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  1. Home
  2. Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide
  3. Section IV. Managing Access Appliance file access services
  4. Using Access Appliance as a CIFS server
  5. About managing local users and groups
  6. Creating a local CIFS user

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Creating a local CIFS user

To create the new local CIFS user

  • To create a local CIFS user, enter the following:
    CIFS> local user add username [grouplist]

    Where username is the name of the user.

    The grouplist is a comma-separated list of group names.

To reset the local user password

  • To set the local password, enter the following:
    CIFS> local password username

    Where username is the name of the user whose password you want to change.

To display the local CIFS user(s)

  1. To display local CIFS users, enter the following:
    CIFS> local user show [username]

    Where username is the name of the user.

  2. To display one local user, enter the following:
    CIFS> local user show usr1

To delete the local CIFS user

  • To delete a local CIFS user, enter the following:
    CIFS> local user delete username

    Where username is the name of the local user you want to delete.

To change a user's group membership

  • To change a user's group membership, enter the following:
    CIFS> local user members username grouplist

    Where username is the local username being added to the grouplist.

    Group names in the grouplist must be separated by commas.

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