Neoview User Management and Security Administration Guide (R2.5)

A user logged on in the role ROLE.SECMGR may delete any platform user, other than the
predefined users SUPERUSER, HPSUPPORT, USERMGR, SECURITYMGR, or VTS. He or she
may not delete any database user.
Syntax
[.SEC] DROP USER [username]
Parameters
• username is the user name of an existing database or platform user.
Error Conditions
If the command is successful, a message is displayed indicating that the user was dropped. The
command returns an error in any of the following cases:
• The user executing the command is logged on in a role other than ROLE.MGR or
ROLE.SECMGR.
• The specified user does not exist on the Neoview platform.
• The user name has invalid syntax.
Examples
The following command drops Kumiko Ishida's account:
.sec drop user kumiko.ishida-hpsup
GRANT ROLE Command (database users)
The GRANT ROLE command grants an additional role to an existing user. The PRIMARY parameter
determines whether the new role becomes the user's default role or a secondary role. There is
no limit to the number of secondary roles a user can have.
The Neoview platform does not validate the user name with the LDAP server when you grant
the user a role.
Syntax
[.SEC] GRANT ROLE [rolename], USER [username],PRIMARY [{Yes|No|Y|N}]
Parameters
rolename
The role to be granted to the user. A string consisting of the prefix “ROLE.” followed by 1 to
8 alphanumeric characters, the first of which may not be a number. Alphabetic characters
are case-insensitive.
username
The name of an existing database user. The name can consist of up to 128 characters.
PRIMARY
The value Yes or Y signifies that the role to be granted will be the user's primary role. The
user's existing primary role becomes a secondary role. The value No or N signifies that the
role to be granted will be a secondary role.
Error Conditions
If the command is successful, a message is displayed indicating that the user was assigned the
additional role. The command returns an error in any of the following cases:
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