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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
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)
What's New or Changed in Managing Users and Groups?
Tools for User Account and Group Account Management
What Are User Accounts and Groups?
Using Large User IDs and Group IDs
Guidelines for Using User Names, User IDs, and Group IDs
Where User Account and Group Information Is Stored
Customizing a User's Work Environment
Using Site Initialization Files
Avoiding Local System References
Default File Permissions (umask)
User and Site Initialization Files Examples
5. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)
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 the Oracle Solaris Auto Registration regadm Command (Tasks)
18. Managing Services (Overview)
20. Managing Software (Overview)
21. Managing Software With Oracle Solaris System Administration Tools (Tasks)
22. Managing Software by Using Oracle Solaris Package Commands (Tasks)
The following table lists the recommended tools for managing users and groups. These tools are included in the Solaris Management Console suite of tools. For information about starting and using the Solaris Management Console, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks).
Table 4-8 Tools for Managing Users and Groups
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Use the Solaris Management Console online help for information on performing these tasks.
For information on the Solaris commands that can be used to manage user accounts and groups, see Table 1-5. These commands provide the same functionality as the Solaris management tools, including authentication and name service support.
The Solaris user management tools enable you to manage user accounts and groups on a local system or in a name service environment.
This table describes the tasks that you can perform with the Users tool's User Accounts feature.
Table 4-9 Task Descriptions for User Accounts Tool
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For information about adding a user to the local system or name service, see What Are User Accounts and Groups? and User Account Components.
Table 4-10 Task Descriptions for Rights Tool
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For more information on granting rights to users, see Contents of Rights Profiles in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Table 4-11 Task Descriptions for Administrative Roles Tool
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For more information on using administrative roles, see How to Plan Your RBAC Implementation in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Table 4-12 Task Descriptions for Groups Tool
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For information on adding users to groups, see UNIX Groups.
Table 4-13 Task Descriptions for Mailing Lists Tool
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For information on creating mailing lists, see the Solaris Management Console online help.
Table 4-14 Task Descriptions for Projects Tool
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Users and groups can be members of a project, an identifier that indicates a workload component that can be used as the basis of system usage or resource allocation charge-back. Projects are part of the Solaris resource management feature that is used to manage system resources.
Users need to be a member of a project to successfully log in to a system running the Solaris 9 release. By default, users are a member of the group.staff project when the Solaris 9 release is installed and no other project information is configured.
User project information is stored in the /etc/project file, which can be stored on the local system (files), the NIS name service, or the LDAP directory service. You can use the Solaris Management Console to manage project information.
The /etc/project file must exist for users to log in successfully, but requires no administration if you are not using projects.
For more information on using or setting up projects, see Chapter 2, Projects and Tasks (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.