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Operating Systems AIX Not able to create a new user through prompt and smit Post 302454002 by citaylor on Friday 17th of September 2010 03:13:51 AM
Old 09-17-2010
This usually is a filesystem or file corruption issue....A few things to check:
  • The filesystem(s) that hold /etc, /var and /tmp have disk space available
  • The /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/security/user, /etc/security/login, /etc/security/passwd and /usr/lib/securty/methods.cfg have correct permissions
  • On later AIX try running "userck" to check the validity of the above files
  • If you have an earlier version of AIX, check for blank lines in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and look for double blank lines or corruption in /etc/security/users, /etc/security/login and /etc/security/passwd
  • Is your system configured to authenticate against an external security database, for eg NIS or LDAP ?

I hope this helps...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

checksecurity

CHECKSECURITY(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  CHECKSECURITY(8)

NAME

       checksecurity - Run a collection of simple system checks

SYNOPSIS

       checksecurity

DESCRIPTION

       The checksecurity command runs a small collection of simple system checks which are designed to catch a few common security issues.  check-
       security is run by cron in a daily basis.

CONFIGURATION

       The checksecurity.conf file defines several configuration variables: MAILTO, CHECK_DISKFREE, CHECK_PASSWD and CHECK_SETUID LOGDIR.  Each is
       described below.

       The  checksecurity program works with a collection of plugins which are located in /usr/share/checksecurity and are configured individually
       by their own configuration file.

       CHECK_PASSWD If this is set to TRUE then the check-passwd script will be invoked.  This script is designed to report upon  system  accounts
       which  have  no passwords.  CHECK_DISKFREE If this is set to TRUE then the check-diskfree script will be invoked and will allow an alert to
       be sent if there is any mounted partition is running short on disk space.  CHECK_SETUID If this is set to TRUE then the check-setuid script
       will be invoked, this will compare the setuid binaries upon the system to those that existed previously and show the differences.

FILES

       /etc/checksecurity.conf
	      checksecurity configuration file

SEE-ALSO
       See also check-diskfree(8), check-setuid(8), and check-passwd(8)

Debian Linux							  2 February 1997						  CHECKSECURITY(8)
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