Managing Administrator User Accounts BrickStor SP provides a default Administrator User Account login named bsradmin. The bsradmin login is configured with the necessary privileges so that most BrickStor SP administrative tasks can be performed by that user. Some additional system administration tasks require full root privileges, such as issuing the reboot command. If an administrative action causes "permission denied", use sudo to rerun that command; for example: sudo reboot. Each administrator user account has a persistent home directory which is limited to 1GB to avoid consuming all of the available system disk space. If necessary, the quota can be changed or a smaller quota can be set on each administrator home directory dataset. A general security best practice is to to create individual named administrator user accounts for each person managing the BrickStor SP. This provides accountability and audit logging. Creating Administrator User Accounts A new administrator account can be created using the bsradm admin create <login> command. This example, creates the login account for a user named "alice": $ sudo bsradm admin create alice Converting Legacy User Accounts For BrickStor SP systems prior to 23.6, the root login account has traditionally been used as the superuser system administrator. Starting in release 23.6, newly installed systems do not allow login as root. Instead, a separate system administrator login named bsradmin is used. Existing systems that are upgraded to 23.6 are unchanged and the root login can continue to be used. Systems that have been upgraded from earlier releases and which now want to use individual named user accounts while deactivating root logins, the bsradm admin upgrade <login> command can also be used to convert the system. This example converts an existing user account named bob into a BrickStor SP administrator: $ sudo bsradm admin upgrade bob Upgrading an existing user account will disable the ability to log in as root.