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Operating Systems AIX adding users via smit Post 302518316 by mshilling on Friday 29th of April 2011 09:39:07 AM
Old 04-29-2011
adding users via smit
I apologize if this is a simple/stupid question. When I add users in smit as root, many(most) of the fields are automatically popluated with some basic default values.

Some other admins here have access to create users via sudo, however when they create users (sudo smit users), the user gets added to /etc/passwd but the rest of the user creation process fails. When we go look at that users characteristics, only the username is filled in and the rest of the fields are blank.

Is there something I am missing or can I not have this functionality via sudo?

Thanks in advance

---------- Post updated at 09:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:31 AM ----------

to expand on this a litte, if I could give them a script that would create users via command line I would gladly go that route. Every script I have tried including starting from pressing F6 during user creation and working from that fails in the same way. It appears to work but when I look at the characteristics of the user, most fields in smit are blank.

Thanks
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

warnquota

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

NAME

       warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS

       warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       warnquota  checks the disk quota for each local filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their softlimit.	It
       is typically run via cron(8).

       -F, --format=quotaformat
	      Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection).  Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota),
	      vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)

       -q, --quota-tab=quotatab
	      Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).

       -c, --config=configfile
	      Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).

       -a, --admins-file=adminsfile
	      Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.

       -u, --user
	      check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).

       -g, --group
	      check  whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpad-
	      mins.

       -s, --human-readable
	      Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.

       -i, --no-autofs
	      ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.

       -d, --no-details
	      do not attach quota report in email.

FILES

       aquota.user	   quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user	   quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/warnquota.conf configuration file
       /etc/quotatab	   device description
       /etc/quotagrpadmins administrators of the groups
       /etc/mtab	   default filesystems
       /etc/passwd	   default set of users

SEE ALSO

       quota(1), cron(8), edquota(8).

AUTHORS

       warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>.  This reference page writ-
       ten by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara

																      WARNQUOTA(8)
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