UnixWare Administration

To Add New Logins: UNIX Shell

To Add New Logins:

UNIX Shell

Introduction You can use the UNIX shell commands to add Proxy Agent logins, or you can choose another method.

When to use Add a new Proxy Agent user to your system after you have installed UnixWare and tested the network connections.

Procedure Use the following steps to add a new login.

Step

Action

 

 

1

Log in as root.

 

 

2

Enter the following command on a single command

 

line. All arguments are optional except login_ID.

 

usradd -u usr_number -g primary_group_

 

ID\-G supplementary_group_ID -c

 

comment\-d home-_directory -s program -m

 

login_ID

 

 

3

Enter the following command to assign a password for

 

your new user:

 

passwd options login_ID

 

 

4

Enter the appropriate password options.

 

Hint: The following table describes some of these

 

options.

 

End

 

 

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