Adding Groups and Users With Command-Line Tools

This section provides examples of adding users and groups with command-line tools.

Adding a Group and User With the groupadd and useradd Commands

The following example shows how to use the groupadd and useradd commands to add the group scutters and the user scutter1 to files on the local system. These commands cannot be used to manage users in a name service environment.

# groupadd -g 102 scutters
# useradd -u 1003 -g 102 -d /export/home/scutter1 -s /bin/csh \
-c "Scutter 1" -m -k /etc/skel scutter1
64 blocks

For more information, see the groupadd(1M) and useradd(1M) man pages.

Adding a Group and User With the smgroup and smuser Commands

The following example shows how to use the smgroup and smuser commands to add the group gelfs and the user camille to the NIS domain solar.com on the host starlite.

# /usr/sadm/bin/smgroup add -D nis:/starlitesolar.com -- -g 103 -n gelfs
# /usr/sadm/bin/smuser add -D nis:/starlite/solar.com -- -u 1004 
-n camille -c "Camille G." -d /export/home/camille -s /bin/csh -g gelfs

For more information, see the smgroup(1M) and smuser(1M) man pages.