Creating new user in Sun Solaris 7 1

[ggrondin]

Can anyone briefly explain how new user accounts are created in SUN Solaris 7?

Thank You.

 

[sendhilk]

type admintool

click on edit - add

there u will get a admintool add user window
give a user name
leave the user id field as it shows
add primary group if u want him to belong to some group
leave the default shell to /bin/sh unless u want to use anyother shell
and give a home directory for the user if he has one.

sendhilk

 

[ggrondin]

Thank you for the quick response. The suggested procedure works well to set up an account on one machine. However, I am dealing with one server and 2 other workstations. I need an account that will let me login from anyone of the three machines that we have on our network. Is there an easy way to set this up?

Thanks!

 

[simanek]

What I have set up is as follows:
The server is the master password server. The workstations then retrieve a copy of the files from password server every hour (you could do this via an ftp script, etc.) but if you went with the automount route to replicate the file, you would be better off since you are running a very small network. One thing to note though, is that using one password server does NOT scale very well...been there...done that...got in trouble. =^) HTH.

Mike

 

[fraserross]

The simplest way to promulgate the account details is to copy 'files' from the server to the workstations. Copy from '/etc' 'passwd', 'groups' and 'shadow' files from the server. This should promulgate the account info, it is only three files so it does not take long. Alternatively set up NIS+. NIS+ adds security and informs each workstation of the current account information when a login is requested. However, this is a more complex system to setup and would be worth while if a large number of user accounts are been created and modified. If you are not particularly confident on UNIX I would advise you to stay away from automount, I hate automount!