New to Solaris 1

[edwardpius]

Hello,

I am new to the Unix environment. I have a Sun Solaris 9 64 bit dual processor machine connected to my Windows laptop through a serial port. I have managed to connect to this machine through the Hyperterminal interface and logged on as root.

Initially, what I would like to do is to create some other users (since I do not want to do things invadvertently which would screw up the machine) and transfer a file which I found in the Sun's website called the Solaris Management Console.

Can anybody provide me with either some hints and/or links which would help me out at this stage. I am planning to purchase some kind of Administration book(s) - any hints on this would also be helpful..

In appreciation,

Edward.

 

[KenCunningham]

Edward - man useradd for adding users.

http://docs.sun.com/

for documentation. Will respond more fully next week when I have more time. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

[bi]

For doc:

http://www.docs.sun.com

Since you are connecting through hyperterminal, you won't be able to use admintool to add a user. So, you'll need to do it "manually" with the command useradd.

Type man useradd at the command line to get the manual page for useradd. If you get a message that says "No manual entry for useradd", type catman to create the man pages.

 

[z28sarefun]

Also, as far as getting started with Solaris, a great book I've found is "A Practical Guide to Solaris" by Sobell. I think it's only supposed to be good up through Solaris 7 but I found it very useful when learning Solaris 8.

HTH and happy holidaze.

Brian

 

[10000000000]

man useradd will help you to add users or refer the Manual in docs.sun.com.

You need to collect the information about the groups, home directory, shell etc... before creating user. If you would like to know the syntax, refer the below.

1. useradd -u <UID> -g <GID> -m -d <Home Directory> -c <Comment> -s <Shell> username

Refer the manual for each options given above.

2. Then assign password to the user using below

# passwd <username>


3. User to forcibly change passwd

# /bin/passwd -f <username>

 

[daFranze]

Edward,

if you want to use the GUI of Solaris you need an XServer on your PC and the PC and the Sun must &quot;see&quot; each other on the ethernet (ping the sun, if you get reply).
There are a view XServer programs, I am using Hummingbird Excceed in my Office; with this product you can &quot;drag&quot; the loginscreen from the Sun to your PC, it looks like working at the Sun Console. (hope you understand what I am talking about?!)

Books: in German Language...? Thomas Handschuch &quot;Solaris 7&quot;

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - &quot;Home of the Whopper&quot;, oh no, &quot;Home of the Oktoberfest&quot; ;-)