I have solaris 9 installed across 2 disks.
disk 1
/ s0
swap s1
/usr s6
/var s3
/home s7
disk2
/swapfile (spare space for use with swap) s1
/opt s5
/export/home s7
When I create a new user using solaris Management... (1 Reply)
The home directory for me on my system is on /home/kwon. It was created using "useradd kwon"
When i go to change the home directory for a user doing a usermod -d /home/test when they log on it gives them messages saying to generate new ssh keys, and it does. It gives me a thing that says... (1 Reply)
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I have a new HPUX system going into production and it will be used by 2 projects. One of the contract requirements is the 2 groups can not have access to the others work or data. I believe I have the system pretty well locked up using groups and permissions and selective mounting of... (2 Replies)
I have a directory with its subdirectories and files. I want to change them all to read only. Say it is ~/test
chmod -R 444 ~/test
chmod: `/home/myname/test': permission denied
I do not understand. Do I have to have executable mode for a diirectory to access.
How can I change ~/test to... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
First of all, i am so sorry about my bad level in English writing.
I have some problem in linux and i hope the experts of this forum to help me if they have enough time to reply to me.
I have a scenario of configuring NIS and NFS in Redhat Linux environment such that user can login... (0 Replies)
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I have an LDAP server that is used for authentication. Now the home directory id set to : /export/home/user1 . But I am logging in to different machines Solaris, Linux. The problem is I want the home directory to change depending on the os version (e.g. /export/home/user1/linux). Can... (1 Reply)
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on my Solaris 10 machine user's home directory ownership is being changed automatically to their UID. can any one please tell me whats the reason behind it .
users are there in /etc/passwd file . /etc/shadow file is also there along with nssswitch.conf file and there is no changes made to... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10.
After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init).
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
passwd
passwd(5yp)passwd(5yp)Name
passwd - password file description with the Yellow Pages service implemented
Description
The file stores initial login information, including passwords for each user in the system. Regardless of whether or not the system has
the Yellow Pages service implemented, the file contains the following information:
Name (login name, contains no uppercase)
Encrypted password
Numerical user ID
Numerical group ID
User's real name, office, extension, home phone.
Initial working directory
Program to use as Shell
The name can contain an ampersand (&), meaning insert the login name. This information is set by the command and used by the command.
This is an ASCII file. Each field within each user's entry is separated from the next by a colon. Each user is separated from the next by
a new line. If the password field is null, no password is demanded; if the shell field is null, the system defaults to the shell.
This file resides in the directory. Because of the encrypted passwords, it can and does have general read permission and can be used, for
example, to map numerical user IDs to names.
Appropriate precautions must be taken to lock the file against simultaneous changes if it is to be edited with a text editor. The command
does the necessary locking.
In a Yellow Pages environment, the file can also have a line beginning with a plus (+), which means to incorporate entries from the Yellow
Pages data base. There are three styles of + entries: by itself, + means to insert the entire contents of the Yellow Pages password file
at that point; +name means to insert the entry (if any) for name from the Yellow Pages at that point; +@name means to insert the entries
for all members of the network group name at that point. If a + entry has a nonnull password, directory, gecos, or shell field, it will
override what is contained in the Yellow Pages. The numerical user ID and group ID fields cannot be overridden.
Examples
Here is a sample file:
root:q.mJzTnu8icF.:0:10:Privileged Account:/:/bin/csh
jcj:6k/7KCFRPNVXg:508:10:JC Javert:/usr2/jcj:/bin/csh
+john:
+@documentation:no-login:
+:::Guest
In this example, there are specific entries for users root and jcj, in case the Yellow Pages are temporarily out of service. Alterna-
tively, a user may need specific login information on a given system that differs from the information contained in the Yellow Pages map
for that user. The user, john, will have his password entry in the Yellow Pages incorporated without change. Anyone in the netgroup docu-
mentation will have their password field disabled, and anyone else will be able to log in with their usual password, shell, and home direc-
tory, but with a gecos field of Guest.
FilesSee Alsochfn(1), finger(1), login(1), passwd(1), crypt(3), getpwent(3), group(5), adduser(8), vipw(8)passwd(5yp)