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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users creating user accounts in AIX Post 46342 by pdepa on Tuesday 13th of January 2004 11:07:23 PM
Old 01-14-2004
Data creating user accounts in AIX
Hello all:

I am new to UNIX and I am given the responsibility of administering a UNIX machine recently. The system is a IBM AIX 3.1. As a part of my duties I recently created some user accounts
using "smit". It looked as if everything went well. But, after creating the account, I logged into it and found the prompt to be "#". I think this kind of prompt is only assigned to superusers. The prompt for other normal users is "work_station/home/username %". I am afraid that may be I assigned the new user accounts to be
superusers.

Is there a way to check the privileges of the new accounts? And, how do I revert them back to normal user status?

Any kind of help is appreciated and hoping for a reply desperately before anything goes wrong.

Thanx
Praveen.
 

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lppasswd

lppasswd(1)							    Apple Inc.							       lppasswd(1)

NAME

       lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.

SYNOPSIS

       lppasswd [ username ]
       lppasswd -a [ -g groupname ] username
       lppasswd -x username

DESCRIPTION

       lppasswd  adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file, passwd.md5. When run by a normal user, lppasswd will prompt
       for the old and new passwords.  When run by the super-user, lppasswd can add new accounts (-a username), change	existing  accounts  (user-
       name), or delete accounts (-x username) in the digest password file. Digest usernames do not have to match local UNIX usernames.

OPTIONS

       lppasswd supports the following options:

       -g groupname
	    Specifies a group other than the default system group.

SECURITY ISSUES

       By  default,  the lppasswd program is not installed to allow ordinary users to change their passwords. To enable this, the lppasswd command
       must be made setuid to root with the command:
       chmod u+s lppasswd

       While every attempt has been made to make lppasswd secure against exploits that could grant super-user privileges  to  unprivileged  users,
       paranoid system administrators may wish to use Basic authentication with accounts managed by PAM instead.

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpr(1),
       http://localhost:631/help

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