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Operating Systems Solaris useradd Post 74361 by Selma on Thursday 9th of June 2005 08:42:42 AM
Old 06-09-2005
useradd

Hi,

I need to add a new user who will only be able to access one single folder on my Solaris 9 system. Can this be achieved by using just useradd or do i need to fiddle with auth_attr table?

TIA,

Selma
 

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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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