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Assigning group memberships to a user account

You can use Storage Manager to assign group membership to a user account if you want a user to have the privileges that are associated with a particular group.

Before you begin

  • The group must exist before you can add a user to the group.

  • The user must exist before you can add the user to a group.

About this task

You cannot add users to the special Everyone group.

  1. Click Storage > SVMs .
  2. Select the SVM , and then click SVM Settings.
  3. In the Host Users and Groups pane, click Windows .
  4. In the Users tab , select the user account to which you want to assign group memberships, and then click Add to Group .
  5. In the Add Groups window, select the groups to which you want to add the user account.
  6. Click OK .

Result

The user account is assigned membership to all of the selected groups, and the user has the privileges that are associated with these groups.