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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Experts,
Need your support
Redhat 6.5
I want to create a user with all(read, write, execute) privileges except that user should not be able to create any new user from his login
to perform any task. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: as7951
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
My question is basically as the title says. How can I check a user inputted string is only certain characters long (for example, 3 characters long) and how do I check a user inputted string only contains certain characters (for example, it should only contain the characters 'u', 'a', 'g', and 'c')... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Eric1
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3. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Hi there,
I have a Debian 5.0 server that my company uses for deployment testing. This server needs to be accessed by NOC people that have no NIX knowledge whatsoever.
I am creating a bash script for a menu-based command interface for the commands they need to run on their testing routines,... (21 Replies)
Discussion started by: ppucci
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Besides doing some shell-script which loops through /etc/passwd, I was wondering if there was some command that would tell me, like an enhanced version of getent.
The Operating system is Solaris 10 (recent-ish revision) using Sun DS for LDAP. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ckmehta
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can one limit the size of user mailboxes in /var/spool/mail? (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: proactiveaditya
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
if my user has to enter the name of months to carry out a search how can I limit the input values to only the month names and nothing else?
so far my input criteria for the user is this:
i would like it so the user can only enter the months in the way i have stated. otherwise they would... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: amatuer_lee_3
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7. AIX
Hi,
I'm using AIX version 5.3 currently. I'm trying to create a user id, e.g. andyleong, which the system prompted the length is too long.
1. I would like to know is that the length of user id is limited to maximum 8 characters for AIX.
2. Is it apply to all versions of AIX?
If no... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: meihua_t
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have AIX 5.1
I have created a user manually in the /etc directory.
Then I created his home directory "mkdir /home/fharvey"
then I changed ownership "chown fharvey /home/fharvey"
set his password "passwd fharvey"
When I log in as him I get "user is required to change password. "when I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: rocker40
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
Thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: r1500
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i just installed netBSD, and i want to know how to create a new user account. i understand that netBSD doesn't come with the tools to do that, so i downloaded a user utility (mebbe i'm wrong about netBSD) but the problem is, i don't know how to read files off floppy disks. (i'm quite new to unix)... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Newbie4ever
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