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Operating Systems Solaris password policy for new user Post 302572923 by dehetoxic on Friday 11th of November 2011 05:57:17 PM
Old 11-11-2011
apologies for the trouble, but even-thought i'd created the user "testing", i still can't create a new user without root permission ?

testing@testbank> useradd testing2
UX: useradd: ERROR: Permission denied.

i mean, i need to test when create the new user, the username should include numberic char

Last edited by dehetoxic; 11-11-2011 at 07:18 PM..
 

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USER(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   USER(8)

NAME
user -- manage user login information on the system SYNOPSIS
user add -D [options] user add [options] user user del -D [options] user del [options] user user info [options] user user mod [options] user DESCRIPTION
The user utility acts as a frontend to the useradd(8), usermod(8), userinfo(8), and userdel(8) commands. The utilities by default are built with EXTENSIONS. This allows for further functionality. For a full explanation of the options available, please see the relevant manual page. EXIT STATUS
The user utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. FILES
/etc/skel/.[A-z]* Skeleton files for new user /etc/usermgmt.conf Configuration file for user, group(8) and the backend commands mentioned above. SEE ALSO
chpass(1), group(5), passwd(5), usermgmt.conf(5), useradd(8), userdel(8), userinfo(8), usermod(8) HISTORY
The user utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author. AUTHORS
The user utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>. BSD
November 16, 2005 BSD
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