The user password gets displayed in the logs for the Admin> user add username system-admin|storage-admin|master command

If you execute the Admin> user add username system-admin|storage-admin|master command and enter the password with the command (which is an optional parameter), the user password gets displayed in the logs. This happens because every command that is executed on the Access Appliance command-line interface is logged on the admin.log and command.log. Since the password is also a part of the command, the password also gets logged.

(IA-12819)

Workaround:

There is no workaround for this issue.

Veritas recommends that when you create new users, you provide the password on the CLI only when prompted.