Note:

On a system using the Network Information Services (NIS), you cannot create a group name that conflicts with an NIS group name even if that name does not exist in your local /etc/group file.

Figure 10 Creating Groups

Displaying User Account Information

You can display user account information for any number of selected users. (See Section : Searching for User Accounts for instructions on searching for users.)

To display user account information, use one of the following methods:

Click on one or more names from the User Account list and click on Display Selected.

Click on Display All to select all the names in the User Name list box.

As shown in Figure 11, the Administration utility displays the following information for each account you selected:

User name

UID

Source of user account information (Local means the user information is stored in the /etc/ passwd file; LDAP means the information is stored in the an LDAP directory server).

Primary group

Login directory

Login shell

The full account name associated with the user

Displaying User Account Information

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