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About This Book

1.  Oracle Solaris Management Tools (Road Map)

2.  Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks)

3.  Working With the Oracle Java Web Console (Tasks)

4.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)

5.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

Setting Up User Accounts (Task Map)

Gathering User Information

How to Customize User Initialization Files

How to Add a Group With the Solaris Management Console's Groups Tool

How to Add a User With the Solaris Management Console's Users Tool

Adding Groups and Users With Command-Line Tools

Adding a Group and User With the groupadd and useradd Commands

Adding a Group and User With the smgroup and smuser Commands

Setting Up Home Directories With the Solaris Management Console

How to Share a User's Home Directory

How to Mount a User's Home Directory

Maintaining User Accounts (Task Map)

Modifying User Accounts

Disabling User Accounts

Deleting User Accounts

How to Modify a Group

How to Delete a Group

Administering Passwords

Using Password Aging

How to Disable a User Account

How to Change a User's Password

How to Set Password Aging on a User Account

How to Delete a User Account

6.  Managing Client-Server Support (Overview)

7.  Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)

8.  Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System

9.  Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)

10.  Shutting Down a System (Tasks)

11.  Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)

12.  Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

13.  Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)

14.  Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)

15.  x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)

16.  x86: Booting a System That Does Not Implement GRUB (Tasks)

17.  Working With Oracle Configuration Manager

18.  Managing Services (Overview)

19.  Managing Services (Tasks)

20.  Managing Software (Overview)

21.  Managing Software With Oracle Solaris System Administration Tools (Tasks)

22.  Managing Software by Using Oracle Solaris Package Commands (Tasks)

23.  Managing Patches

A.  SMF Services

Index

Chapter 5

Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

This chapter describes how to set up and maintain user accounts and groups.

For information on the procedures associated with setting up and maintaining user accounts and groups, see the following:

For information on the procedures associated with setting up and maintaining user accounts and groups, seeSetting Up User Accounts (Task Map).

For background information about managing user accounts and groups, see Chapter 4, Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview).