Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Creating local users

You can create users with either the admin, limited-admin, or the user role.

1. Click the Settings button (the gear icon) in the DDMC banner, then select Access > Local Users.
2. Click Add.
3. In the Add local User dialog box, type the following in the General tab:

   Table 1. General tab

   Item	Description
   Name	User ID or name.
   Role	Management role that is assigned to the user: Administrator and limited-admin: Can configure and monitor the entire DDMC and all Data Domain systems. User: Can monitor DDMC and systems for which they have permission.
   Password	User password. Set a default password, and the user can change it later. The default value for the minimum length of a password or minimum number of character classes that are required for a user password is 9. Password policy configuration: min-char-classes is 4, and it is not configurable password should have at least one: Lowercase character (a-z) Uppercase character (A-Z) Numeric character (0-9) Special characters ($, %, #, +, and so on) By default, password cannot have more than three consecutive repeated characters.
   Verify Password	User password, again.
   Disable account on the following date	Select Manual and type a date (mm/dd/yyyy) when you want to disable this account, or use the default value of never. This date uses GMT.
   Minimum Days Between Change	Minimum number of days between password changes that you allow a user. Default is 0.
   Maximum Days Between Change	Maximum number of days between password changes that you allow a user. Default is 99,999.
   Warn Days Before Expire	Number of days to warn the users before their password expires. Default is 7.
   Disable Days After Expire	Number of days after a password expires to disable the user account. Default is Never.

4. Select Add.
   NOTE The default password policy can be changed by the admin or limited-admin using Manage Password Policies. The default values are the initial default password policy values.
5. Click Apply to save changes.