Managing Users

An
system grants access to its resources when a known user with appropriate permissions logs on to the system with a password that matches the one stored for that user.
You can use the vSphere SDK for all user management tasks. You cannot create
users by using the
.
You can use the
vicfg-user
command to create, modify, delete, and list local direct access users on an
host. You cannot run this command against a
system.
Starting with vSphere 5.1, you can no longer manage groups with
vicfg-user
.