Comments on: How To Create User Accounts in Unix http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/ Learn UNIX Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:07:52 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: sreenivasa murhy raju http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-6014 sreenivasa murhy raju Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:42:22 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-6014 Good example. It helped me in creating the user and assinging the password. Thanks Sreenivasa Good example. It helped me in creating the user and assinging the password.

Thanks
Sreenivasa

]]> By: Gleb Reys http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-1906 Gleb Reys Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:21:49 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-1906 Hi Dave, I've just answered your question in today's post: http://www.unixtutorial.org/2009/02/how-to-change-ownership-of-files-and-directories-in-unix/ Hi Dave, I've just answered your question in today's post:

http://www.unixtutorial.org/2009/02/how-to-change-ownership-of-files-and-directories-in-unix/

]]> By: Dave http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 Dave Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:22:08 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-1898 How do you change the owner of all files owned by a user to another user? How do you change the owner of all files owned by a user to another user?

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]]> By: gopal http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 gopal Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:26:09 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-1680 ya its really useful to me ya its really useful to me

]]> By: Gleb Reys http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Gleb Reys Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-1608 Hi Kuba, And thanks for stopping by! I know exactly the script you're talking about, I've seen adduser long time ago too. The useradd command is a more recent one, and it's syntax is very close, if not the same, among all the Linux systems and Solaris. This is the first post, so I'll be sure to expand on it explaining all the options! Also, since most users who are new to Unix don't know what home directory is anyway, they don't have to specify it - and even though the homedir won't be created, the user entry itself will be added without a problem. Thanks for a great comment! Great to know someone's watching, and for more advanced users - great way to learn from comments until I post more. Hi Kuba,

And thanks for stopping by! I know exactly the script you're talking about, I've seen adduser long time ago too.

The useradd command is a more recent one, and it's syntax is very close, if not the same, among all the Linux systems and Solaris.

This is the first post, so I'll be sure to expand on it explaining all the options! Also, since most users who are new to Unix don't know what home directory is anyway, they don't have to specify it – and even though the homedir won't be created, the user entry itself will be added without a problem.

Thanks for a great comment! Great to know someone's watching, and for more advanced users – great way to learn from comments until I post more.

]]> By: kuba http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/12/how-to-create-user-accounts-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 kuba Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:48:15 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/?p=322#comment-1607 The useradd command is not exactly the same in different UNIXEN a.o. Linux flavors. Some time ago I also noticed an "adduser" script ( I think it was Redhat). Now let's look at how useradd works in Solaris: #useradd -u jack -g other -c "Jack The Ripper" -d /export/home/username -s /bin/ksh -m jack -c comment -u uid -g group -d userdir -s path to shell -m make it If you don't specify a group id, Solaris defaults to "other". If you don't explicitly specify the home dir, it won't be created. The useradd command is not exactly the same in different UNIXEN a.o. Linux flavors. Some time ago I also noticed an "adduser" script ( I think it was Redhat).

Now let's look at how useradd works in Solaris:

#useradd -u jack -g other -c "Jack The Ripper" -d /export/home/username -s /bin/ksh -m jack

-c comment
-u uid
-g group
-d userdir
-s path to shell
-m make it

If you don't specify a group id, Solaris defaults to "other".
If you don't explicitly specify the home dir, it won't be created.

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