UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do you create new users on solaris 2.5 (5.7) without being on the console? with AIX I used SMIT - is there a text based user creation tool? Can't find one....

do a man on useradd...syntax is useradd -u -g -d -s -c -m...

u=uid
g=gid
d=home dir
s=shell
c=comment
m=login

eg...

useradd -u (uid)1060 -g (gid)1 -d (home dir) /export/home/testuser -s (shell)/bin/ksh -c(comment)TESTUSER -m (login)testuser

hope this helps...make sure of the blank spaces...-c doesn't have one

tail the /etc/passwd to check the next uid and /etc/group for the group...

Well thats fine and dandy, but still doesn't answer my question.
Looking for a text based creation tool for Solaris.

AIX (IBM Unix) uses smit.

adduser doesn't do passwords, you have to know about the shadow file, and an existing password to be able to login, otherwise if you have PASSREQ=YES in the profile, it doesn't work.

Works great for moveing user to different groups and user addministration as long as you remember everything.

Just want a simple text based interface to create users and such

I don't know about any text based tool but when you add user as root you can very easily change that users password as root...

passwd username...then login...after that the user can change the passwd again...hope this helps...sorry if I didn't answer your question completely

is your O.S 2.5 or 5.7 ??

if your o.s is 5.7 which is Solaris 2.7 (sort of), you can
try "admintool" .

(i.e.
$su -
$admintool
this will bring you a GUI base tool to add user, printer...)

Hope this help

Well the admintool is good for the GUI section, I was looking for something like SMIT for solaris.

Smit is a Text based admin tool in the AIX world.