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Adding a System Administrator

The system administrator is a directory manager that is authorized to use all commands. Make a system administrator by adding the following GRANT record to the AUTHORIZ CONFIG file, replacing userid with the name of the user ID to make a system administrator:

GRANT * TO userid

This record grants all authorities to the specified user ID. If you want to use the system administrator user ID created with CA VM:Secure, VMANAGER, as your system administrator, grant all authority to VMANAGER.

Decide how you want to manage the system administrator user ID. To protect your system’s security, you may want to create a special user ID that does nothing but manage the system administrator user ID. Consider the following methods to manage it:

• Create a directory manager user ID that will only manage the system administrator user ID. Allow this directory manager to manage only this one user ID.
• Give your MAINT user ID authorization to manage the system administrator user ID.

Be sure to authorize the user ID that needs to manage the system administrator user ID to use the appropriate directory manager commands. For commands that are typically used by directory managers, see the Directory Manager’s Guide.