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Managing local user accounts

You can manage local user accounts by creating, modifying, and deleting them, and by displaying information about user accounts and group membership. You can also perform other management tasks, such as enabling, disabling, and renaming user accounts, setting the password for an account, and managing local account password complexity.

  • Modifying local user accounts
    You can modify a local user account if you want to change an existing user's full name or description, and if you want to enable or disable the user account. You can also rename a local user account if the user's name is compromised or if a name change is needed for administrative purposes.
  • Enabling or disabling local user accounts
    You enable a local user account if you want the user to be able to access data contained in the storage virtual machine (SVM) over an SMB connection. You can also disable a local user account if you do not want that user to access SVM data over SMB.
  • Changing local user account passwords
    You can change a local user's account password. This can be useful if the user's password is compromised or if the user has forgotten the password.
  • Displaying information about local users
    You can display a list of all local users in a summary form. If you want to determine which account settings are configured for a specific user, you can display detailed account information for that user as well as the account information for multiple users. This information can help you determine if you need to modify a user's settings, and also to troubleshoot authentication or file access issues.
  • Displaying information about group memberships for local users
    You can display information about which local groups that a local user belongs to. You can use this information to determine what access the user should have to files and folders. This information can be useful in determining what access rights the user should have to files and folders or when troubleshooting file access issues.
  • Deleting local user accounts
    You can delete local user accounts from your storage virtual machine (SVM) if they are no longer needed for local SMB authentication to the CIFS server or for determining access rights to data contained on your SVM.