creating a new user on Gaia via CLI

where jsmith should be replace with your username

switch to clish shell

if you aren't here already or are at the expert prompt, just type...

[Expert@myfirewall]# clish
myfirewall>

Clish will give you the > prompt

add user

> add user jsmith uid 1005 homedir /home/jsmith

set password

> set user jsmith password

set roles

> add rba user jsmith roles adminRole

set access

> add rba user jsmith access-mechanisms Web-UI,CLI

set uid to root

# set user jsmith uid 0

I don't like setting the user to the root UID. I think Check Point made a mess of the auth permissions as they have in the past. Without setting the root uid above, a user can't run fw commmands like "fw stat".

error:

/opt/CPshrd-R75.40/tmp/.CPprofile.sh: line 96: /opt/CPcvpn-R75.40/scripts/CVPNprofile.sh: Permission denied

# ls -l /opt/CPcvpn-R75.40/scripts/CVPNprofile.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 admin bin 82 Apr  4  2012 /opt/CPcvpn-R75.40/scripts/CVPNprofile.sh

I will investigate adding the users to the bin group. Also, I will add them to the users group. The users group needs to be added to /etc/ssh/sshd_config "AllowedGroups" line. All check point allows there is the root group. Go figure. Sounds insecure to me.