New to AIX

[NickB]

I am absolutely new to the Unix/AIX world.could someone pls point me
to info that'll enable me/show me how to create a few user ID's with
root access.I will be logging in to the AIX server to do some other
s/w installs and i have no clue how to create ID's .
Any/all help wil lbe appreciated.

[Philip Edward Lewis]

[email]nickbudhiraja@yahoo.com[/email] (NickB) writes:

>to info that'll enable me/show me how to create a few user ID's with
>root access.I will be logging in to the AIX server to do some other

Type in "smit" or "smit -C" if on a text terminal.
got to Security and users
the rest should be fairly obvious.

BTW... safer to create maintainence accounts and su to root rather
than have "root" users...

good luck
--
be safe.
flip
Verso l'esterno! Verso l'esterno! Deamons di ignoranza.

[Steve Nottingham]

[email]nickbudhiraja@yahoo.com[/email] (NickB) wrote in message news:<a340f228.0309231935.468f57e4@posting.google. com>...

> I am absolutely new to the Unix/AIX world.could someone pls point me
> to info that'll enable me/show me how to create a few user ID's with
> root access.I will be logging in to the AIX server to do some other
> s/w installs and i have no clue how to create ID's .
> Any/all help wil lbe appreciated.

smitty mkuser will create a user, to give them root access, you need
to vi /etc/passwd and edit the third field and change the number to 0.
e.g. train1:!:208:1::/home/train1:/usr/bin/ksh the third field here is
208.

Though why do you need several ID's with root access ? Or did you mean
they can have access to the root account ?

Best thing would be to create a suroot (for example) group using
smitty mkgroup, then create users (smitty mkuser) and put them in that
group and then modify root id using smitty chuser to say which groups
are allowed to su to root, this is the SU GROUPS field.

Steve