Use the mkusergrp command to create
a new user group.
Syntax
mkusergrp -name group_name [ -remote ]
Parameters
- -name group_name
- (Required) Specifies the unique user group name. The group name cannot start or end with a
blank. The group name must consist of a string of 1 - 64 ASCII characters, with the exception of the
following characters: %:",*' .
- -remote
- (Optional) Specifies that this user group should be used to set the role of remote users. This
is disabled by default.
Description
The mkusergrp command
creates a new user group to organize users of the Storwize V5000 clustered system by role. Use the lsusergrp command
to view a list of user groups that have been created on the clustered
system.
You must have the security administrator
role (SecurityAdmin role name) to create,
delete, or change a user group.
Each user group has one role that determines the role of users that belong to that group. Use the
role parameter to specify one of the following roles for the user group:
- Monitor
- You can issue any information display command and, additionally, the following commands:
- finderr
- dumperrlog
- dumpinternallog
- chcurrentuser
- ping
- svcconfig backup
- CopyOperator
- You can issue the following commands:
- prestartfcconsistgrp
- startfcconsistgrp
- stopfcconsistgrp
- chfcconsistgrp
- prestartfcmap
- startfcmap
- stopfcmap
- chfcmap
- startrcconsistgrp
- stoprcconsistgrp
- switchrcconsistgrp
- chrcconsistgrp
- startrcrelationship
- stoprcrelationship
- switchrcrelationship
- chrcrelationship
- chpartnership
In addition, you can issue all of the commands allowed by the Monitor
role.
- Service
- You can issue the following commands:
- applysoftware
- setlocale
- addnode
- rmnode
- cherrstate
- writesernum
- detectmdisk
- includemdisk
- clearerrlog
- cleardumps
- settimezone
- stopsystem
- startstats
- stopstats
- settime
In addition, you can issue all of the commands allowed by the Monitor
role.
- Administrator
- You can issue any command other than:
- chauthservice
- mkuser
- rmuser
- chuser
- mkusergrp
- rmusergrp
- chusergrp
- setpwdreset
- VASAProvider
- The
system uses this role to implement the VMware Virtual Volumes function. It
provides a group with users that can be used by that software. You can issue any command other than:
- chauthservice
- chldap
- chldapserver
- chsecurity
- chuser
- chusergrp
- mkldapserver
- mkuser
- mkusergrp
- rmldapserver
- rmuser
- rmusergro
- setpwdreset
- SecurityAdmin
- You can issue all commands.
The command returns the ID
of the created user group.
An invocation example
mkusergrp -name support -role Service
The
resulting output:
User Group, id [5], successfully created
An invocation example
mkusergrp -role VasaProvider -name myVasaProvider
The resulting output:
User Group, id [5], successfully created
An invocation example
mkusergrp -role AdministratorWithoutDelete -name myAdministratorWithoutDelete
The resulting output:
User Group, id [5], successfully created