Gather user information.

Use a standard form to gather user information to help you keep user information organized.

Customize user initialization files.

You can set up user initialization files, so that you can provide new users with consistent environments.

Set up user account defaults.

Before adding a user, you must correctly set up the user account defaults.

Create a user account.

Using the account defaults that you set up, create a local user by using the useradd command.

Delete a user account.

You can delete a user account by using the userdel command.

Create a role to perform an administrative task.

Using the account defaults that you set up, create a local role, so that the user can perform a specific administrative command or task.

Create a group.

To create a new group, use the groupadd command.

Add security attributes to a user account.

After you set up a local user account, you can add the required security attributes.

Share a user's home directory.

You must share the user's home directory, so that the directory can be remotely mounted from the user's system.

Manually mount a user's home directory.

Typically, you do not need to manually mount a user's home directory. A home directory that is created as a ZFS file system is mounted automatically when it is created and also at boot time from the Service Management Facility (SMF) local file system service.