Edit a User or Administrator Account

To change the password or the roles for an account belonging to either an enterprise user or a license server administrator, use the -authorize option (to provide your credentials that authorize you for the task) with the ‑users -edit options to edit the account.

To update a user account

Enter a command similar to this:

flexnetlsadmin -server licenseServer_baseURL -authorize yourAdminName {yourAdminPassword|
-passwordConsoleInput} -users -edit accountName {currentPassword|newPassword!|‑passwordConsoleInput} newRole(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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accountName—The case-sensitive user name for the account.

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currentPassword|newPassword!—The current account password; or, if you are changing the password, the new password, which 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.

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newRole(s)!—If you modifying the account’s roles, the new role or roles defining the type of administrative privileges for the account. If multiple roles are specified, insert a plus sign (+) between each role, using no spaces (for example, ROLE_READ+ROLE_RESERVATIONS). For more information about roles, see User Roles Defining Administrative Privileges in the Getting Started section.

If no role is specified, the accounts current role assignment remains in effect.

If you changed the account’s role assignment, view the current user accounts to verify that the account has been assigned the new roles. See Viewing All User Accounts.

Distribute new credentials (if updated) to the enterprise user so that the user can access the appropriate administrative operations.