Creating an administrative user

Last Updated : Dec 23, 2024 |

About this task

You must use a non-root Linux user with sudo privileges to install the Avaya Aura® Web Gateway application. The User ID (UID) of the Linux user that performs the installation must be the same on all nodes in the cluster.

This procedure describes how to add a user and an administrative group. For a clustered deployment of Avaya Aura® Web Gateway, perform the steps described in this procedure on every node in the cluster.

Important:

You must create only one administrative user on each virtual machine.

Before you begin

Deploy RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 on virtual machines.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the virtual machine with deployed RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 as the root user using an SSH connection.
  2. Run the following command to create a group for the administrative user: 
    groupadd -g 4001 <admin_group>

    In this command, <admin_group> is one of the following:

    • If you fresh install Release 10.2.x, this is a group name of your choice.

    • If you migrate from a previous Avaya Aura® Web Gateway release, this is the same administrative group that you use in that release.

    For example:

    groupadd -g 4001 admingrp
    Important:

    For Group ID (GID), you must use 4001.

  3. Run the following command to add an administrative user in the new administrative group: 
    usermod -g <admin_group> -u 4001 <admin_name>

    In this command, <admin_group> is the name of the group you created in the previous step, and <admin_name> is one of the following:

    • If you fresh install Release 10.2.x, this is the name of the administrative user that you created when deploying the virtual machine.

    • If you migrate from a previous Avaya Aura® Web Gateway release, this is the same administrative user that you use in that release.

    For example:

    usermod -g admingrp -u 4001 aawgadmin
    Important:

    For User ID (UID), you must use 4001.

  4. Run the following command to create a password for the new administrative user and then enter the password: 
    passwd <admin_name>

    In this command, <admin_name> is the administrative user name. For example:

    passwd aawgadmin
  5. Run the following command to provide sudo privileges for the new administrative user: 
    usermod -aG wheel <admin_name>

    For example:

    usermod -aG wheel aawgadmin