Creating a Local UNIX Authentication User

This section describes how to create a local UNIX authentication user. When a user accesses the storage system through an NFS client, if the client user has not been added to a domain, the storage system will fail to identify the user. Therefore, you need to create a local UNIX authentication user (with the same ID as the access user) on DeviceManager. This facilitates the management of users of the NFS client, such as user quota allocation.

Procedure

Choose Resources > Access > Authentication User > UNIX Users > Local Authentication User.
Select the desired account from the Account drop-down list in the upper left corner.
Click Create.
The Create Local UNIX Authentication User page is displayed.

Set basic information about the local UNIX authentication user.

Table 1 describes related parameters.

**Table 1** Local UNIX authentication user parameters
Parameter	Description
Name	Indicates the name of the local UNIX authentication user. NOTE: The name must be unique. The name can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.), and cannot start with a hyphen (-). The name contains 1 to 64 characters.
ID	Indicates the ID of the local UNIX authentication user.
Primary Group	Indicates the primary user group to which the local UNIX authentication user belongs. You can click Select and select a user group on the Select Primary Group page that is displayed.
Description	Indicates the description of the local UNIX authentication user. NOTE: The description can be left blank or contain up to 255 characters.

Click OK.