Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

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] ...