Creating Users

To create users

Using an editor such as vi, browse to the /usr/local/ffm/scripts/ldap folder and copy the create-users.ldif file to the /home/administrator folder. It is recommended that you retain the same name.
Using an editor such as vi, edit the file that you copied to the /home/administrator folder as follows and save the changes. The file also contains instructions in the form of comments.
Note: When you replace the placeholders with actual values in the file, ensure that you remove the angular brackets.
1. In the following line, replace <userid> with the login id of the user. The user id must be unique for each user.
```
dn: uid=<userid>,ou=users,dc=unisys,dc=com
```
2. In the following line, replace <firstname> with the user’s first name:
```
givenname: <firstname>
```
3. In the following line, replace <lastname> with the user’s last name:
```
sn: <lastname>
```
4. In the following line, replace <screenname> with a name that the Fabric Manager user interface should display after the user logs in:
```
displayName: <Screenname>
```
5. In the following line, replace <userid> with the login id that you want to give to the user. This must be same as the user id that you entered in step a.
```
uid: <userid>
```
6. In the following line, replace <userid> with the user id that you entered in step a.
```
homeDirectory: /home/<userid>
```
7. In the following line, replace <commonname> with a commonly used name for the user. This value can be the same as user id.
```
cn: <commonname>
```
8. In the following line, set the userid number; change <00000> to any random number greater than 0 and less than 65535. This value must be unique for each user.
```
uidNumber: <00000>
```
9. In the following line, set the password in plain text.
```
userPassword: <password>
```
  Note: By default, the password for a Fabric Manager user account expires after 365 days. Unisys recommends the ClearPath Forward administrator manually set a separate external password expiration reminder (for example, an Outlook task) to notify the administrator that the password is about to expire and should therefore be changed using Changing User Password prior to the password expiring to ensure no interruption of normal operations. Be sure to adjust the external password expiration reminder accordingly when the password is reset or Fabric Manager software is reinstalled.
10. In the following line, set the language in which the Fabric Manager user interface is displayed. You can set it to en_US for US English and to ja_JP for Japanese.
```
preferredLanguage: en_US
```
11. To force the user to reset the password on first login, type the following:
```
pwdReset: TRUE
```
12. To add multiple users, insert a blank line and repeat the user attributes for each user.
13. Save the file and then exit the editor.
Log in to the FMP and open a new terminal session or if you are connecting remotely, use a tool like PuTTY or the remote desktop function of the Fabric Management Platform and execute the following command:
```
ldapadd -D "cn=root,dc=unisys,dc=com" -W -f "/home/administrator/create-users.ldif"
```
Type the password. The default password is ‘LDAPAdmin@1’.
The user or users are created. Execute the following command to verify that the users are created.
```
ldapsearch -D "cn=root,dc=unisys,dc=com" -b "ou=users,dc=unisys,dc=com" -W
```