UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear All,

This is my first post, so greetings to you all!

I have root access to a UNIX system, yet I would like to be able to create user accounts with special privileges and roles such i.e. a User Manager account a Print Manager Account or even an account with the same roles and permissions that a root has.

I have tried to use usermod command and assign some auth_attr authorizations, but that did not work. For example, I wanted to create an account with User Management role (create user accounts, home directories, change passwords, delete them, etc.), let it be called manager:

usermod -A solaris.admin.usermgr.write manager

yet that did not work, anybody has an idea how to create an account with roles and permissions paralleling some of that of the root?

Thanks in advance!
Neked

I use useradd to add the new user,
then modify what groups the new user belongs to

I edit the groups manually. the file is in /etc somewhere...

What kind of changes you do to groups?