.. _creating_additional_users:

Creating Additional Users
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.. index:: user;user add

During installation a user called 'platform' is created which has full
access to all allowed commands within the restricted environment. This
user (and others with the appropriate rights) can then create additional
users who are further restricted to only be able to run certain
commands. For example a user could be created who can only run
diagnostic and logging commands - able to monitor the health of a system
but required to escalate any actions.

Users are created, managed and deleted through the user command. To
create a new user use:

**user add <username>**

The system will create a Unix user with the name specified and set up to
use a restricted shell identical to the platform user. Initially this
user's password is set to match the username but it must be changed on
first login. New users start out with no rights and can only run the
very basic system commands provided to all users (such as **ls**).

For SFTP only users, see: :ref:`creating_and_managing_SFTP_Users`.