VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Configuring root as a SAL User
194 VERITAS Storage Foundation ISP Administrator’s Guide
Note The vxsalcmd command is provided by SAL to manage SAL user accounts. It is not a
VERITAS Volume Manager command.
4. Edit the etc/default/vxassist file, and add an entry to define the user name that ISP
uses for authentication. In the following example, the root account is used:
sal_username=root
Configuring root as a SAL User
To add the root user on the remote host, island.universe.com, as a SAL user with SAL
administrator privileges on the SAL primary, private.universe.com, perform these steps on
the remote host as root:
1. Create a file, such as /tmp/add_user, that contains the following single line definition of
the new SAL user:
user add [e-mail] clydenw Admin
This defines root on the system island.universe.com as a SAL user with SAL
administrator privileges, and with a password set to clydenw.
2. Use the following command to add the new SAL user on the SAL primary:
# vxsalcmd private.universe.com:2802 -u admin -f /tmp/add_user
You are prompted to enter the password for the SAL administrator, in this example named
admin.
To view the new SAL user account, enter the following command:
# vxsalcmd private.universe.com:2802 -u admin user list
Again, you are prompted for the SAL administrator’s password.
3. To allow ISP to communicate transparently with SAL, a local copy of the encrypted account
information for the SAL user must be set up. Create a file, such as /tmp/maintain_user,
that contains the following single line definition of the SAL user’s password:
user rem clydenw