CLM platform user accounts

Default user accounts

CLM system deployment, configuration, and support require low-level operations by a privileged user such as root. The root user typically performs most platform-level and CLM system-level operations.

For greater CLM system security, you can prevent root-user access to CLM system-level deployment and configuration commands, and enable access to only specific privileged non-root users. See Restricting root-user system access for information.

CLM also requires the user accounts described below for CLM runtime functions and UI-based system administration. Each account is created during system deployment.

RHEL runtime user, nsp

Internal CLM functions require a local ‘nsp’ RHEL user group and an ‘nsp’ user in the group. The nsp user owns the local CLM processes, and has administrative control over CLM runtime functions.

The nsp user home directory is the CLM installation base directory, /opt/nsp. The initial nsp user password is randomly generated, and must be changed during the initial login attempt.

Note: CLM software uninstallation does not remove the nsp user account, user group, or home directory.

CLM UI administrator account, admin

By default, a new CLM system has one user account for CLM UI access, the ‘admin’ account. The admin user has full CLM UI and application administration privileges, and access to all CLM UI functions.

Note: Only the admin user, or a user with equivalent administrative privileges, has access to CLM administrative functions in the UI.