Manage Appliance Users

As an appliance administrator, you can manage the users in the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance. You can add new system users, assign them to different groups, or remove them. You can also set a password for a new user account or update the password for an already existing user.

Prerequisites

Make sure your user belongs to the wheel group with root and admin privileges.

Procedure

1. Log in to the appliance using root credentials.
2. To create a new user with a specified home directory and a group, to which the user belongs to, issue the command useradd -m -G <group-name> <user-name>.
   Run the command useradd -m -G group1,group2 user1.
   The example command creates a new user - user1, which is part of two groups - group1 and group2.
3. To set a new password for a newly created user, use the command passwd <user-name>.
   Run the command passwd user1.
   The example command creates a new password for user1.

   Note: You can also use the passwd command to change the password for a user.