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Article Number | 000034119 |
Applies To | RSA Product Set: Security Analytics, NetWitness Logs and Packets RSA Product/Service Type: Core Appliances Platform: CentOS O/S Version: EL6 |
Tasks | This article addresses how to create new user accounts on RSA NetWitness (formerly RSA Security Analytics) appliances via the command line. |
Resolution | Follow the steps below to create new user accounts. 1. Connect to the appliance via SSH as the root user. 2. Run useradd <user_name> command to create user. 3. Run passwd <user_name> to choose password. Example: [root@XXXX ~]# useradd test123 4. Try to access the appliance via SSH using new account created above. |
Notes | This new user account may not have permissions to run more commands which may give errors similar to the example below.[test123@concentrator ~]$ cat /var/log/messages The new user account can be switched to root account when additional permissions needed using su - root command. This command will ask for the password of the root user. |