creating a new user on Gaia via CLI

where jsmith should be replace with your username

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.