Creating Another Administrator Account

To create another license-server administrator account, use the -authorize option (to provide your credentials that authorize you for the task) with the -users -create options to create the account.

To create another administrator account for the license server

1.

Enter a command similar to this:

flexnetlsadmin -server licenseServer_baseURL -authorize yourAdminName {yourAdminPassword|‑passwordConsoleInput} -users -create newAdminName {newAdminPassword|‑passwordConsoleInput} ROLE_ADMIN[+additional_roles] 

The command requires the following:

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yourAdminName yourAdminPassword—Your administrator credentials.

Note that you can provide your administrator password directly in the command; or, to avoid exposing this password as a command-line argument, you can use the -passwordConsoleInput option, which then issues a prompt to enter the password as console input.

Note:(Linux only) If you supply a password directly on the command line you may need to escape some characters with a backslash in order to prevent the shell from interpreting them. The safest approach is to surround the whole password with single quotes, and backslash any single quote that is part of the password.

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newAdminName—The case-sensitive name with which you are identifying the new license-server administrator account.

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newAdminPassword—The case-sensitive password that you are defining for the new license-server administrator account. This password must meet the criteria specified in Credential Requirements. To avoid exposing this password as a command-line argument, you can use the -passwordConsoleInput option, which then issues a prompt to enter the password as console input.

Note:(Linux only) If you supply a password directly on the command line you may need to escape some characters with a backslash in order to prevent the shell from interpreting them. The safest approach is to surround the whole password with single quotes, and backslash any single quote that is part of the password.

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ROLE_ADMIN[+additional_roles]—ROLE_ADMIN and optional other roles—such as ROLE_READ, ROLE_RESERVATIONS, or ROLE_DROPCLIENT—that define this administrator account. If multiple roles are specified, insert a plus sign (+) between each role, using no spaces (for example, ROLE_ADMIN+ROLE_READ+ROLE_RESERVATIONS). For more information about roles, see User Roles Defining Administrative Privileges in the Getting Started section.

2.

View the currently available user accounts to verify that this account has been properly added. See Viewing All User Accounts.

3.

Provide the new administrator with the credentials needed to perform administrative operations. Advise the administrator that both the user name and password are case-sensitive.