Time for action – adding permissions to a user

1. Logon to your Cacti system.

2. Change to the Cacti CLI directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/cli
   

3. Execute the following command:

   php add_perms.php
   

4. You'll see a short overview of the available options for this command:

   

5. As you can see, this tool requires the user-id so let's get a list of all available users:

   php add_perms.php --list-users
   

6. You'll see displayed a list of all users together with their user IDs:

   

7. Now let's assume you want to give access to a specific tree. The command for this is:

   php add_perms.php --user-id=[ID] --item-type=tree --item-id=[TREEID]
   

8. You already have the ID for the user so let's get the TREEID with the following command:

   php add_perms.php --list-trees
   

9. As with the users list, you will see a list of the Cacti trees available together with their IDs:

   

10. Now you are able to give access to a user. Let's give access of the Customer A tree to user1:

    php add_perms.php --user-id=7 --item-type=tree --item-id=2
    

11. When executed, you will not...