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Chapter 7. HMC security and user management 241
Add a new user with Viewer role
If you want to grant a person permission to sign in to the HMC and view the HMC and system
configuration and status, but not to make any changes, you can create a User ID with the
Viewer role, which has the capability to view only the HMC and system configuration and
status.
To add a new user with the Service Representative role, perform the following steps:
1. Select User menu, click Add. to add a new user. The HMC will display the Add User
window as shown in Figure 7-3.
2. Insert the new user ID, a description of the user ID, the password for the new user ID, and
re-type the new password.
3. Select hmcviewer from Task Roles in order to create a new user with the Viewer role as
shown in Figure 7-7. You may select Enforce strict password rules to give the password
expiration and type the number of the expiration day as shown in Figure 7-5 on page 240.
Enforce strict password rules will set the password to expire after the number of the day
specified.
Figure 7-7 Add a new user with Viewer role
4. Click OK to create a new user. The new user ID will be added in the User profiles window.
Once created and used to sign in to the HMC, the HMC Viewer user can only view the
configurations of managed system and logical partition configuration status. It has no
authority to run any administrative tasks such as HMC Configuration or Licensed Internal
Code updates. The HMC will notify the HMC Viewer user if it has no sufficient authority to
access administrative interfaces, as shown in Figure 7-8.
Figure 7-8 HMC notification of lack of sufficient authority