02-21-2010
Platform trends (what to aim for to become a sys admin)
I am currently an AIX operator at IBM (Montreal Canada). In my career path, I wish to become a system admin. I know about Linux because I'v had ubuntu at home for 2 years.
What platform should I aim for in becoming a system admin ?
What book would you recomand ?
What certification would you recomand ?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
users-admin
users-admin(1) User Commands users-admin(1)
NAME
users-admin - Configure local users and groups on the system.
SYNOPSIS
users-admin [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
users-admin enables the user to configure the local users and groups on the system. I also provides the ability to assign RBAC profiles to
a user.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
tion.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% users-admin
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/users-admin Executable for users and groups configuration.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/data/users
Where user template configurations are stored.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/users
Backup directory for files that are modified.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/users
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), groupadd(1M), group-
mod(1M), passwd(4), shadow(4), group(4), attributes(5)
NOTES
YP/NIS, NIS+ and LDAP users should be aware that it's possible to have conflict with users configured in here with the result that an error
will occur.
You should ensure that local user's home accounts are located on local filesystems - e.g. creating a new entry in /home when it's mounted
with automount will not work and as such the user may not be created.
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 users-admin(1)