Adding users

There have been some staff changes at Integrity Insurance, and the Avaya IR system administrator needs to administer users to reflect those changes.

A new person, Rob Dillon, will be helping with system administration tasks. The Integrity system administrator will use the Admintool interface to add him as a user. She has planned the entries she will make.

Note:
To use Admintool, you need to have an X Window environment, such as CDE (Common Desktop Environment) for Sun systems or Exceed for Microsoft Windows systems. If you do not have access to an X Window environment, you can establish user accounts with the Solaris command useradd and groupadd.

To add a user to the IR system:

1. At the Solaris prompt, type admintool & to start the admintool interface.

   The system displays the Users main menu. You use this window to manage account information.

   

2. On the Edit menu, select Add.

   The system displays the Add User window.

3. Complete the Add User window with information about the new user and select OK.

   Note that:

   • User ID numbers must be a whole number less than or equal to 2147483647. They are required for both regular user accounts and special system accounts. Although User ID numbers 0 through 99 are reserved, you can add a user with one of these numbers. However, do not use them for regular user accounts. By definition, root always has User ID 0, demon has User ID 1, and pseudo-user bin has User ID 2.
   • When adding a user account, you must assign a primary group for a user or accept the default group, staff (group 10). The primary group should already exist (if it does not exist, specify the group by a GID number).

     The Integrity system administrator completed the window by making the following entries:

   • User name: rdillon
   • User ID: 1006
   • Primary Group: administration
   • Secondary Group: no entry
   • Login Shell: ksh
   • Password: admin
   • Min Change: 2 days
   • Max Change: 42 days
   • Max Inactive: 90 days
   • Expiration Date: None
   • Warning: 5 days
   • Path: /export/rdillon

     Rob is now added as an Avaya IR user. The list of user accounts displayed in the Users main window is updated to include the new user account. The next step is to assign permissions to allow him access to the Avaya IR system.

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