Creating an Enterprise User Account

To create an enterprise user account, use the -authorize option (to provide your credentials that authorize you for the task) with the -users -create options to create the account. (Creating a license-server administrator account is described in the next section, Creating Another Administrator Account.)

To create an enterprise user account

1.

Enter a command similar to this:

flexnetlsadmin -server licenseServer_baseURL -authorize yourAdminName {yourAdminPassword|
-passwordConsoleInput} -users -create userName {userPassword|-passwordConsoleInput} role(s) 

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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userName—The case-sensitive name to identify the enterprise user’s account.

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userPassword—The case-sensitive password that you are defining for the enterprise user’s 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(s)—The one or more roles determining the type of administrative privileges for the account—either ROLE_READ, ROLE_RESERVATIONS, or ROLE_DROPCLIENT. If multiple roles are specified, insert a plus sign (+) between each role, using no spaces (for example, ROLE_READ+ROLE_RESERVATIONS). If no role is specified, ROLE_READ is automatically assigned. 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.

Distribute the credentials to the enterprise user so that the user can access the appropriate administrative operations. Advise the user that both the user name and password are case-sensitive.