Assigning group memberships to a user account

You can use System 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.

Steps

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