mkuser

register a new username

Usage

accurev mkuser { -kf | -kd | -kk } <principal-name> [ <password> ]
[ -e <email_address> ] [ -s <ssh_public_key> ]

Description

The mkuser command defines a new user by creating a new principal-name in AccuRev’s user registry. The user is licensed in one of these ways:

•	can use AccuRev configuration management, AccuWork issue management, and GitCentric (“full” license)

•	can use GitCentric and AccuWork issue management only

•	can use AccuWork issue management only

AccuRev operations can be performed only by someone who has a principal-name in the registry, and has a license appropriate for the operation. Each transaction records the principal-name of the person who performed it.

A principal name must start with a letter (a-z, A-Z); it can contain only letters, underscores, spaces, hyphens, periods, plus signs, the commercial at sign (@), and numbers.

To list the existing principal-names, use the show users command. To rename a user (e.g. to fix a spelling error or change cindi to cyndee), or to change the kind of license for a user, invoke the chuser command.

If you rename an existing user with the chuser command, you can then create a new user with the original principal-name. The two users have different numeric user-IDs, and are unrelated.

Principal-names and Usernames

Your principal-name is independent of the username (login name) by which the operating system knows you. You might be working in a heterogeneous network, where there are multiple incompatible operating-system user registries. Similarly, your organization might be using AccuRev at multiple sites. In such situations, you can (and must!) use the same principal-name wherever you work, even though your operating-system username varies from machine to machine.

Security: Principal-names and Passwords

Principal-names are also needed for AccuRev security. A user with a password is considered to be an “authorized user” by the AccuRev ACL facility.

Options

-e <email_address>

Allows you to specify an email address for the user. The address length is limited to 256 characters.

-kf

(default) Create a user licensed for AccuRev, AccuWork, and GitCentric.

-kd

Create a user licensed for AccuWork only. The user can access AccuWork issues in a depot (unless restricted by an ACL permission), but cannot access the version-controlled files in any depot.

-kk

Create a user licensed for both GitCentric and AccuWork

-s <ssh_public_key>

Allows you to specify an SSH public key for the user. When specifying the -s option:

•	Enter text characters only. If you are copying the SSH key from an id-rsa.pub file, for example, make sure not to introduce new-line characters or spaces.

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You can omit the ssh-rsa string that appears before the key, and the email address that appears at the end of the key. If you choose to include these values, however, the entire argument for the -s option must be in double quotes. For example: "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADA..../tvfVdfO17me/Wh user@company.com" Note that ssh-rsa is assumed. If you are using ssh-dss, you must include the entire argument as shown in the preceding example, substituting ssh-dss for ssh-rsa.

A general discussion about the SSH protocol is beyond the scope of this document, so use a search engine with terms like 'SSH', and 'tutorial' for more information.

Examples

Create a new user named john_smith, licensed to use both the configuration management and issue management facilities.

> accurev mkuser john_smith

Create a new AccuWork user named jane_doe, with password cv78w.

> accurev mkuser -kd jane_doe cv78w

See Also

chpasswd, chuser, lsacl, setacl, show (users)