Managing User Accounts and User Environments in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

How to Add a User

1. Become an administrator or a user with the User Management rights profile.

   See Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

2. Create a local user.

   By default, the user is created locally. If you include the –S ldap option, the user is created in an existing LDAP repository.

   # useradd -d dir -m username

   –d

   Specifies the location of the home directory of the user

   Use the –d localhost:/export/home/username instead of –d /export/home/username to force the entry to be written to auto_home.

   –m

   Creates a local home directory on the system for the user.

   For a detailed description of all of the options and arguments that you can specify with the useradd command, see the useradd(1M) man page.

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   Note -  The account is locked until you assign the user a password.

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3. Assign the user a password.

   # passwd username
   New password: Type user password
   Re-enter new password: Retype password

   For more command options, see the useradd(1M) and passwd(1) man pages.

See Also

After creating a user, you might need to perform some additional tasks, including adding and assigning roles to a user, and displaying or changing the rights profiles of a user. For more information, see Creating a Role in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.