--- title: How to manage Hyperglance users (Legacy Docker Guide) description: Hyperglance holds its own internal database of users and we have shell scripts that you can use to manage users. By default Hyperglance comes loaded with a single admin user whose username is 'admin' --- [Skip to content](https://support.hyperglance.com/knowledge/managing-users-post-5.2-legacydocker#main-content) English Show submenu for translations [More support](https://support.hyperglance.com/knowledge/kb-tickets/new?hsLang=en) ![](https://support.hyperglance.com/hs-fs/hubfs/hyperglance.png?width=100&height=75&name=hyperglance.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - [More support](https://support.hyperglance.com/knowledge/kb-tickets/new) - [Contact Us](https://www.hyperglance.com/contact/) [Contact Us](https://www.hyperglance.com/contact/) How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. 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To get started quickly see the example scenarios at the bottom of this page! ### User Management Scripts Our user management scripts are located in **/usr/local/bin/users** #### adduser.sh Adds a user to the database. The user is created with no roles and will not be able to login, so must be followed up with a call to **setroles.sh** to assign appropriate roles. ``` adduser.sh [password] ``` - **username** - Required. A unique username to create. - **password** - Optional. The password of the user. If not provided as a parameter argument then the script will interactively prompt to enter a password (and again to confirm). #### deleteuser.sh Removes a user from the database. ``` removeuser.sh ``` - **username** - Required. The name of the user to remove. #### listusers.sh Prints out all users in the database. ``` listusers.sh ``` #### resetpassword.sh Modifies the password of an existing user. ``` resetpassword.sh [password] ``` - **username** - Required. The name of a user whose password will be changed. - **password** - Optional. The password of the user. If not provided as a parameter argument then the script will interactively prompt to enter a password (and again to confirm). #### setroles.sh Assigns (or re-assigns) a set of roles to an existing user. The script will automatically include the most basic "HyperglanceUser" role which is enough to grant read-only login ability to a user (although additional roles are needed to grant access to view topologies). Learn more about how roles work in [Hyperglance's RBAC system](https://support.hyperglance.com/knowledge/role-based-access-control-rbac?hsLang=en). ``` setroles.sh [roles] ``` - **username** - Required. The name of a user to grant roles to. - **roles** - Optional. 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