CLI – Adding and managing Spectrum Control users

All user accounts that can be used to access the IBM® Spectrum Control Base Edition must be individually defined.

You can either define (add) a single Spectrum Control user account, or define multiple user accounts to be used separately.

Use the sc_users CLI command to add, delete, or display user accounts, and also to change the password of any specific account. Use the required argument after the command, as specified in the following table.

Note:

All CLI command arguments are case-sensitive.
The same operations are available from the GUI as well, as explained in GUI – Managing the Spectrum Control users.
The sc_users utility cannot define or affect external directory users. For more information about how to configure directory user access, see Configuring LDAP-based directory user access.

Table 1. Arguments for sc_users
Argument	Use after sc_users to:
add -n <username> -p <password> or add --user_name <username> --user_password <password>	Add the username and password of the user that may access Spectrum Control. You can add more than one user. For example: `sc_users add -n johnvc -p ********`
change_password -n <username> -p <new password> or change_password --user_name <username> --user_password <password>	Change the password of a user account that was already added. The password that you type for the specified username is set as the new password. For example: `sc_users change_password -n johnvc -p **********`
delete -n <username> or delete --user_name <username>	Delete a user account from the server. For example: `sc_users delete -n johnvc`
list	Display the names of currently defined user accounts. For example: `sc_users list User list: john_vc zivkal_vc lihit_vc`
-h or --help	Display help information that is relevant to sc_users. You can also display help for the add_user, change_password, or delete_user argument if it is typed on the command line as well.